The world's largest fusion experiment is about to go dark for three years, just as pressure mounts for clean energy ...

If you blinked, you missed it. Last week, Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world’s most energetic laser, fired its 192 laser beams for 23 billionths of a second. The ...

How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed.

The world’s most powerful laser, which was first detailed in a 2012 paper written by a team of researchers from Japans’ Osaka University, has successfully been fired. Turned on for one trillionth of a ...