On April 1, 2026, four astronauts strapped into the Orion spacecraft and rode a rocket into history. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy ...

Four years into Russia’s war with Ukraine, nearly all ties between Russian and European science have been severed. Russian scientists were expelled from CERN, a particle-physics lab in Geneva. A joint ...

Explore how fusion reactors, ITER tokamaks, plasma confinement, and deuterium tritium fuel work together to unlock net energy gain and deliver reliable, large-scale clean energy. Pixabay, ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Iter Opus will open its HQ in Rochester in February 2026, investing in ethical AI, workforce innovation, and job creation. Rochester has the talent, infrastructure, and civic momentum needed to ...

Following a life well-lived on three continents, Helen Henderson Hinton died peacefully at her home in Asheville, NC on December 6, 2025. She was born March 25, 1953, in Little Rock, AR and spent most ...

In the heart of Provence, Southern France, the world's largest fusion energy experiment, which could be a step towards unlimited energy, has quietly entered perhaps the most critical stage yet. The ...

Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 billion (A$15 billion), from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...

A project of almost unimaginable scale is kicking into high gear in the south of France. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is humanity's biggest and boldest attempt to ...