As ever, you can scroll through the blog to catch up on what you missed and relive the historic announcement as it happened. For a wrap-up of the news briefing and what it could mean for the world's ...

A friend of mine who was trained as a physicist used to joke about a future in which each of us would carry handheld fusion reactors that plug in anywhere to provide copious amounts clean energy for ...

The United States has announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough, a historic step towards the promise of “near-limitless” clean energy. “It will go down in the history books,” said Energy Secretary ...

US scientists have announced an historic achievement which could “pave the way” for clean power through nuclear fusion ignition. Calling it a “major scientific breakthrough” the experts at Lawrence ...

There’s a new fusion kid on the block. His name is Nick Hawker and he carries a very big gun – 22m long. It fires a projectile at around 7km/s and aims to hit a bullseye only two atoms wide. Fusion, ...

Nuclear fusion – the energy released when atomic nuclei merge – offers the potential for essentially limitless energy, without releasing greenhouse gases or creating dangerous nuclear waste, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility, where researchers work on getting higher energy outputs from fusion ...

Nuclear fusion has produced more energy than ever before in an experiment, bringing the world a step closer to the dream of limitless, clean power. The new world record has been set at the UK-based ...

A pioneering nuclear fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire has been switched on for the first time. Mast Upgrade could clear some of the hurdles to delivering clean, limitless energy for the grid.

US scientists reveal they have achieved 'holy grail' of getting more energy out of a fusion reaction than it took to trigger it Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all ...

A pioneering nuclear fusion experiment based in Oxfordshire has been switched on for the first time. Mast Upgrade could clear some of the hurdles to delivering clean, limitless energy for the grid.