China is on course to have more than 1,000 nuclear warheads in the next few years, according to U.S. intelligence estimates.

The stakes of the “race to fusion” are dramatic. Commercial fusion has the potential to deliver nearly unlimited energy by ...

Chinese scientists have shattered the Greenwald density limit in nuclear fusion research ...

A team of Chinese researchers has reported reaching a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius—six times hotter than the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

Experiments show fusion plasma can stay stable at higher densities by controlling reactor walls, challenging long-standing limits.

China's Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak fusion facility (BEST) has entered a new construction phase as it speeds toward its 2027 target completion date. The state-run nuclear ...

China has advanced its nuclear fusion program by developing and successfully testing the largest ever radiation-proof robot, capable of performing maintenance in massive fusion facilities. The global ...

The U.S. and China are in a high-tech race to achieve and commercialize an elusive clean energy source: nuclear fusion. Here’s what’s at stake as the competition over energy resources intensifies ...