The THOR target, featuring the windows around the hohlraum’s equator. Courtesy LANL LANL NEWS RELEASE A Los Alamos National Laboratory-led team working in conjunction with Lawrence Livermore ...

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Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved nuclear fusion ignition with the help of an AI program that ...

In the decades since Project Pluto’s cancellation, the Russians have taken the core idea as their own—and unlike the Americans, do not appear concerned about the ethical quandaries it presents.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear fusion reached a milestone this month, as AI agents at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) developed a new fusion-target design ...

Jeff Colvin, a research physicist and author of “Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War,” will give a presentation on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to ...

Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

LLNL announces a new tsunami warning system using the world's fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, for real-time forecasts.

Researchers at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have combined AI with fusion target design by deploying ...

SALT LAKE CITY – It’s easy to talk about satellite autonomy but significant work remains to determine exactly which tasks ...

The computer weighs 1.3-million pounds, the same as four blue whales or 100 African elephants – and it's right here in the ...

A Los Alamos National Laboratory team has recreated a 1938 low-energy nuclear fusion experiment that could make fusion ...