The Latest Breaking News from NIF

This year, the National Ignition Facility repeated its energy gain achievement multiple times, making fusion scientists more optimistic than ever.

When academician and literary historian Professor N.S. Gundur began thinking about Kannada texts that readers beyond the Kannada world should read, he started by making a list of books. “I ended up deleting most of the titles because they largely spoke to Kannada audience,” says Gundur, one of the three recipients of…

Last week’s experiment in the US is promising, but it’s not a magic bullet for our energy needs

The NIF is a relic of Cold War nuclear tests and paranoia.

After scientists managed to create surplus nuclear fusion energy for the first time, experts are wondering how to scale things up.

Researchers in the US have finally fulfilled an objective that was set decades ago: the achievement of “ignition” – getting more energy out than you put in – using nuclear fusion.

In today’s newsletter: US scientists this week announced progress on a potentially revolutionary source of renewable energy. But there’s still a way to go

Proponents say lasers can be used to generate energy but others say fusion power unlikely to ‘save us from climate change’

A giant laser facility in Livermore, Calif., says it has created net energy from nuclear fusion. It's an important breakthrough, but fusion power remains a distant dream.