In 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved nuclear-fusion net energy gain, and repeated the result in 2023, though the experimental apparatus consumed far more power than the fusion fuel produced.
Sources
- The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years—and ... (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.aip.org/fyi/2022/national-ignition-facility-achieves-long-sought-fusion-goal (aip.org)
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/08/06/nuclear-fusion-net-energy-gain-higher-yield/ (washingtonpost.com)
- https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/achieving-fusion-ignition (lasers.llnl.gov)
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/national-ignition-facility-impractical (spectrum.ieee.org)
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/laser-powered-fusion-experiment-more-than-doubles-its-power-output/ (techcrunch.com)
More in Science
- Ben Garrod, co-presenter of the BBC special 'The Day the Dinosaurs Died,' stated that the dinosaurs' extinction depended on where the asteroid hit, rather than the asteroid's size, the scale of the blast, or its global reach.
- A 2000 study found that two-thirds of parents bringing children under 7 to city emergency rooms did not know the difference between concentrated infants' acetaminophen drops and other acetaminophen formulations.
- The entropy of a gas is an example of an adiabatic invariant.
- A treatment cycle with bevacizumab used off-label costs approximately 20 euros.
- A 2014 study linked hugging with stronger protection against the common cold.
- A 2023 study found that middle-aged adults who closely followed the MIND diet had faster information-processing speeds than adults who did not closely follow it.