Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner ...

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

Last month, a small company in San Francisco announced that it had a plan to manufacture gold—not merely a flake or a nugget, but tons of the stuff. According to a paper written by one of Marathon ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...

From Curiosity to Career Every great engineer starts with one question: How does this work? For Sergey Macheret, that question ...

The Genesis Mission directs the DOE to accelerate AI-driven energy, science and national security breakthroughs across U.S. laboratories.

Combining generative AI with reinforcement learning can help the U.S. win the race to fusion energy by finding better ways to reach the plasma temperatures and pressures needed for fusion power plants ...

Princeton, NJ – If learning is fun, then we have a wild week in store. Our events calendar is chockful of seminars, panel discussions, and even a fundraiser addressing all sorts of heavy issues in a ...

Bob Mumgaard, CEO of the company Commonwealth Fusion Systems, testifies at a House Science Committee hearing on fusion on Sept. 18, 2025. U.S. efforts to develop fusion power technologies need a $10 ...

An artist’s interpretation of the inside of a fusion vessel, where some of the inner surfaces are directly exposed to the plasma.Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department Scientists in the US have ...

For all the problems AI is causing society, one of its greatest benefits lies in the world of science. A new study focused on the chaotic dynamics of dusty plasmas found that, when trained properly, ...

Physicists have used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The work is one of the relatively few instances of using AI ...