Water, a fundamental ingredient for life, may have appeared far earlier in the universe than previously thought. New research ...

Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after ...

The main fuels used in nuclear fusion devises are deuterium and tritium, both heavy isotopes of hydrogen. The Deuterium (D ... and releases 17.6 megaelectron volt (MeV) of energy in the form of ...

A team of astrophysicists running numerical simulations believe that water may have existed a lot earlier in the universe ...

Such issues have led to a resurgence of interest in a third nuclear option, which combines aspects of both technologies in the form ... hydrogen isotopes that are the most promising for use in a ...

There are no CO 2 or other harmful atmospheric emissions from the fusion process, which means that fusion does not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions or global warming. Its two sources of fuel, ...

To develop a practical fusion power system, scientists need to fully understand how the plasma fuel interacts with its ...

With no hydrogen left to fuse in the core, a shell of fusion hydrogen will form around the helium-filled core, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder wrote in an article for The Conversation ...

French scientists achieved a milestone by maintaining a plasma state for over 22 minutes in their WEST reactor, advancing ...