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Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes

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A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show.
The controlled fusion of atoms – creating conditions like those in our Sun – has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source.
However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for [...]

A novel form of fusion power

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An alternative approach to achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory
LIKE conquistadors seeking El Dorado, physicists cannot leave the idea of fusion power alone. Some spend billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on the huge machines they believe are the best way to generate the temperatures and pressures needed to persuade atomic nuclei to [...]

Transparent Aluminum Is ‘New State Of Matter’

Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.

A Clean Energy Machine That Works Like the Sun

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WHAT could be the world’s most expensive clean energy project is under way in a quiet corner of southern France.
China, the United States, Japan and the European Union have committed billions of dollars to construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, in a heavily forested corner of Provence called [...]