Squishy materials can also exhibit shear thickening – they become more rigid the harder you try to deform them. This is how ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Canadian startup General Fusion has been working on its unique approach to producing clean energy through nuclear fusion for ...

In a global first, Richmond, Canada-headquartered fusion energy company General Fusion achieved the first-ever ...

Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making the systems simpler and more affordable to build.

Discovery reshapes our understanding of heat transfer in extreme materials, with implications for inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density science ...

The reactor, called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), is General Fusion’s latest iteration in a string of devices that have tested ...

A plasma instability has been photographed for the first time, showcasing electron beams forming spaghetti-like filaments.

“We’ve built 24 plasma injectors, created over 200,000 plasmas, and generated fusion neutrons from plasma compressions – de-risking LM26 and preparing us for this new chapter at General Fusion,” said ...

A research team has developed a groundbreaking new method of producing carbon fiber while drastically reducing its energy footprint.

These new discoveries could serve as a vital resource for future lunar missions, potentially aiding in the establishment of ...

Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.