Fusion power has been heralded as the "holy grail" of energy research, as it has the potential to provide limitless clean power for humanity's energy needs. Technical challenges, like keeping plasma contained when it is over 150 million degrees Farenheight, has hereto kept us from realizing our nuclear fusion dreams.

Since November 8, I have refused to watch any cable news. I was so shocked by the outcome of the presidential race that I just couldn’t believe anything I heard on CNN or MSNBC.  

The Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research reactor was able to sustain the high-performance plasma for a record 70 seconds. The KSTAR team reached the plasma state using a completely non-inductive mode and a high-power neutral beam.

Erik Verlinde's emergent gravity theory makes sense of the behavior of gravity without the need for the existence of a dark matter particle. Researchers from the Leiden Observatory have studied more than 33,000 galaxies to see if Verlinde’s theory checks out.