Collaborate Disseminate
Whenever anyone mentions the word “antibodies” these days, it’s sure to grab your attention. Thoughts generally flow to the human immune system and the role it plays in the ongoing …read more Continue reading Monoclonal Antibodies: The Guided Missiles of Medicine
Scientists working with superconducting magnets have made a breakthrough that paves the way for carbon-free power. Continue reading MIT Scientists Report ‘Major Advance’ In Fusion Energy
In the field of nuclear fusion some are going big with their pursuit of clean, inexhaustible energy, like those piecing together the seven-story building to house ITER, the world’s largest tokamak reactor. Others, meanwhile, are working on more compact… Continue reading World’s strongest fusion magnet brings new power to nuclear pursuit
The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator is an experimental nuclear fusion reactor designed to bring us closer to the prospect of clean, limitless energy, and since producing its first plasma in 2015 we’ve seen it take steady and significant steps toward that a… Continue reading Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor on path to plasma twice as hot as the Sun
The field of nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances of late, with scientists demonstrating how fuels can be heated to the temperatures needed for the necessary reactions to take place. All are working towards a version of the technology where t… Continue reading High-powered laser closes in on nuclear fusion ignition
The field of nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances of late, with scientists demonstrating how fuels can be heated to the temperatures needed for the necessary reactions to take place. All are working towards a version of the technology where t… Continue reading High-powered laser closes in on nuclear fusion ignition
Research groups and startups the world over are working to take nuclear fusion from a fanciful concept to a practical, zero-carbon means of producing practically infinite electricity, and one such team in Washington has just taken a significant step fo… Continue reading Helion Energy’s next-gen fusion facility steps up pursuit of clean power
We’ve had nuclear fission reactors in operation all over the world for ages, but nuclear fusion always seems to be a decade or two away. While one cannot predict when …read more Continue reading Fueling Up For Fusion: MAST’s Super-X, JET’s Deuterium-Tritium Experiments For ITER, And More
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is one of a number of promising nuclear fusion research devices in operation around the world, and over the past few years we’ve seen it take some impressive steps forward. Chinese state medi… Continue reading China claims new fusion record with its “artificial sun” nuclear reactor
For nearly a century, scientists have been tantalized by the prospect of attaining an inexhaustible source of energy through nuclear fusion. Unfortunately, engineering a controlled environment where atomic nuclei can continuously fuse under extreme pre… Continue reading Four ways to fusion: The pros and pitfalls of our nuclear power pursuit