Plants can't move to escape the heat like humans can; they are forced to adapt. As temperatures fluctuate, one key survival ...

Chinese researchers have designed a sodium-ion battery electrolyte that polymerizes under heat to form an internal barrier, ...

Running oak splits in a gravity fed system is not typical, so I wanted to see what would really happen. The American way of ...

Four experiments on the Z machine at 22 million amps provide data on simplified ‘targets’ for pulsed-power inertial fusion concepts Pacific Fusion today reported results from a series of experiments ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...

China has moved one step closer to clean fusion energy by breaking a long-standing rule in plasma physics. Scientists running the country’s artificial sun have shown that plasma can stay stable even ...

Apart from the very curious, not many people ask why diesel engines, compared to gasoline, run higher compression ratios. The argument is reasonably straightforward and starts with fuel ...

A flashover is an event where an entire room is rapidly engulfed in flames. By John Yoon The cause of the fire that left dozens dead at a bar in Switzerland in the early hours of Thursday is still ...

A new experiment conducted at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) assessed the ability of U.S. nuclear weapons to survive encounters with adversary missile defenses and reach their targets. The ...

Double-shell liquid deuterium-tritium (DT) capsules provide for a new platform to study fusion plasmas under extreme conditions. Unlike single-shell capsules typically used in ignition experiments, ...

Founded in January 2022, Xcimer has already raised $100 million, according to PitchBook, from investors including Hedosophia, ...