(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In February, the US’s National Ignition Facility fired off its seventh laser shot, generating a record-breaking amount of energy for a laser-ignited fusion reaction. Can ...

For all the heady talk about the misleadingly “deific,” recently confirmed quantum specks named after a Scottish physicist, another kind of historic event has transpired: in a shot fired on July 5, a ...

Commercial laser-based fusion energy plants could be rolled out at scale by 2040, if a host of challenges faced by manufacturers of laser diodes and large-scale optics can be met in the meantime. That ...