Genius kid builds a nuclear fusion reactor at home
A teen genius at a U.S. middle school has built a working, tiny nuclear fusion reactor—and made it into Guinness World Records.
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Joseph Shavit
- Aug 20, 2022
Teen genius: 12-year-old kid builds a nuclear fusion reactor at home
A teen genius at a U.S. middle school has built a working, tiny nuclear fusion reactor—and made it into Guinness World Records
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 20, 2022
Quantum charging electric cars as fast as pumping gas
Whether it's photovoltaics or fusion, sooner or later, human civilization must turn to renewable energies. This is deemed inevitable.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 16, 2022
A breakthrough once described as impossible brings a fusion energy device closer to realization
Scientists have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the design of twisty stellarators and their ability to hold fusion fuel together
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 27, 2021
Plastic waste-powered rocket could sustainably take humanity to Mars
A nuclear fusion company with lofty aspirations around sustainable space travel, has test-fired a rocket engine powered by plastic waste.
Joshua Shavit
- Sep 13, 2021
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field records, paving the way for fusion energy
The creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could limit the effects of global climate change.
Joshua Shavit
- Sep 3, 2021
Scientists create first-ever vibration-free Quantum tunneling microscope
A key challenge is finding materials and processes that make complex architectures with stable quantum bits possible.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 31, 2021
Researchers take an important step toward building a fusion power plant
Think of light bulb filaments that glow when you flip a switch. That glow also occurs in magnetic fusion facilities known as tokamaks
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 19, 2021
Major nuclear fusion first achieved as 'ignition' triggered in a lab
Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer physics questions
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 7, 2021
China’s “artificial sun” tokamak fusion reactor just set a new fusion record
China’s “artificial sun” set a new record after it ran at 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds, according to the state media
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