Not so with laser ignition, as Wintner points out. “Lasers allow you to work even leaner than you could with a normal spark plug, so you can get better efficiencies,” he says.

The efficient transmission of intense laser light through a plasma while minimizing instabilities represents a critical challenge to the development of laser fusion. Simulations and experiments of ...

Images from space reveal an enormous X-shaped building rising up from rocky terrain in southwestern China. This is a huge ...

SINGAPORE--China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research center in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at two analytical organizations say, a development that could aid ...