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 ...

The artificial intelligence boom has already changed how we understand technology and the world. But developing and updating AI programs requires a lot of computing power. This relies heavily on ...

The bustling city of Shanghai marks national celebrations with world-famous light shows, illuminating its skyscrapers with dazzling colors, like beacons of Chinese innovation. It is here that ...

US scientists have reached a major milestone in their attempts to perfect a process which could potentially deliver almost limitless supplies of energy. Nuclear fusion does not rely on fossil fuels or ...

Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.

A Washington state-based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality for DARPA, which wants higher-power ...

Avalanche Energy is working on an DARPA project to build a new class of materials capable of turning damaging radiation into ...

It’s been around for so long that it’s almost gone out of fashion. Nuclear fusion has been and remains the holy grail of energy research and it’s about to take a giant leap forward. In Provence, the ...

The subhead for your editorial (The FT View, March 20) enthusing about the UK government’s latest £2.5bn commitment to nuclear fusion research acknowledges it to be an “elusive power source”. That is ...

1. Fusion reactions occur naturally in stars like our sun, where hydrogen nuclei fuse together under high temperatures and pressure to form helium nuclei. Energy is released as electromagnetic ...