China's EAST reactor has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion, sustaining plasmafor 1,066 seconds. The ...

A sign of how serious Beijing is taking this new energy arms race emerged last week when the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

The EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a temperature of 158 million degrees Fahrenheit for 1,056 seconds. The achievement brings scientists a small ...

Scientists just set a new record in attempts to create an 'artificial Sun' down here on planet Earth. The team behind the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China kept their ...

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SCIENTISTS have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the pursuit of creating an "artificial sun" that could be the source of unlimited energy. Researchers hope the machine will help harness the ...

Latest ‘artificial sun’ test shows researchers now capable of simulating operational environment of a future fusion power ...

A sign of how serious Beijing is taking this new energy arms race emerged last week when the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that the country’s scientists had run an “artificial sun ...

The EAST tokamak has set a new record for plasma confinement duration. The EAST tokamak, nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun," maintained stable plasma for 1,066 seconds. This unprecedented duration ...

Replicating solar energy has become the goal of scientists around the world. With the threat of global warming and the durability of human life on this planet, achieving a replica ...

The experimental reactor's main goal is to create nuclear fusion like the Sun, using deuterium from the sea to provide a steady stream of clean energy.

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy.