Inside a concrete-and-steel facility in Devens, Massachusetts, a crane lowered a 20-ton high-temperature superconducting ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have designed innovative technology that can generate both ...

CRANBURY, N.J.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--BlackLight Power, Inc. today announces that it achieved sustained electricity production from a primary new energy source by using photovoltaic technology to ...

Commercial fusion power – electricity from facilities that will exploit the same thermonuclear fusion process that enables the sun to provide the planet with life-sustaining heat and light – may no ...

Inside a donut-shaped vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, superheated plasma recently did something it was not supposed to do: it ...

A team of U.S. scientists has made a surprising discovery that could help bring fusion energy, a long-hoped-for clean energy source, closer to reality. In a recent experiment at the University of ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collaborative effort between researchers at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences led to the ...

Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory found a way to make plasma heating more efficient for fusion. By slightly angling a Faraday screen near the plasma antenna, they stopped unwanted ...

Methanol has been made in a single step by zapping methane with pulses of electricity. The plasma-based reaction, which also ...