Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner ...
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World’s largest stellarator turns ten: How W7-X cracked code for steady fusion plasma

Some fusion machines chase brute-force power. Wendelstein 7-X chose elegance—3D magnetic geometry sculpted to tame plasma for ...
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First observed stellar superflare raises alien world concerns

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 ...

Icy hot plasmas: Fluffy, electrically charged ice grains reveal new plasma dynamics

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