A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a ...

Energy startup Marathon Fusion claims to have found a scalable way to turn mercury into gold, but they still have much to ...

For centuries, alchemists from Egypt to Enlightenment Europe dreamed of transmuting common substances into precious ones.

This then decays into a stable form of gold: gold-197. This process of particle decay is where one subatomic particle spontaneously transforms into two or more lighter particles. The team from ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) have made a new strategic partnership to accelerate the demonstration and commercialization of fusion ...

Watch Nuclear Fusion Reactor Form Plasma: 'You Can't Take Your Eyes Off It' Published Feb 07, 2023 at 7:08 AM EST Updated May 15, 2023 at 9:38 AM EDT. By .

A world record for nuclear fusion has been smashed after an 'artificial sun' reactor was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes.