Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

The full Overwatch Season 1 2026 patch notes are here, and they’re full of new content, sizeable changes, and a few surprises.

Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows for sure — but if they can, a team of scientists argue they may have spotted evidence of ...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in nature it came from. Billions of people likely don't care at all about such ...

Fusion power’s biggest question remains unanswered: How do you ensure the cost to start the fusion reaction isn’t higher than the price at which you can sell the power? Plenty of people have ideas, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Nuclear fusion conjures images of massive reactors or banks of dozens of large lasers. Avalanche co-founder and CEO Robin Langtry thinks smaller is better. For the last several years, Langtry and his ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Fusion has been in the news a lot recently given its promise as an abundant and clean source of energy that could ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe ...

Energy networks face growing complexity as power generation becomes decentralised AI enables SSE's transmission lines to safely carry 15% more power capacity Traditional energy firms have identified ...

[August 26, 2025] Code and dataset annotations released. [April 29, 2025] The paper has been accepted by IJCAI 2025. The difficulty of pixel-level annotation has significantly hindered the development ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the 25th space shuttle mission Challenger left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as millions of ...