March 05, 2026

ENERGY TECH Simulations reveal how plasma flow steers fusion reactor exhaust Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Scientists using advanced computer models have solved a long-standing puzzle about how hot plasma exhaust behaves inside tokamak fusion devices, a finding that could help future reactors withstand decades of intense operation. The work explains why significantly more exhaust particles strike the inner part of the divertor, the component that handles heat and particle loads, than the outer part, a pattern seen in experiments but not reproduced in earlier simulations. Tokamaks confine plasma in a do ... read more

UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid battery Santa Barbara, CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. This is the fundamental hurdle of renewable energy: how to save the sun's power for a rainy day - or a cold night. Chemists at UC Santa Barba ... more Deep learning model tracks EV battery health with high precision Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 With electric vehicles and grid storage expanding worldwide, engineers are looking for better ways to track how lithium ion batteries age under real driving and operating conditions. A new study su ... more Soil microbe turns carbon dioxide into acetate using electricity Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 A newly identified soil bacterium could help connect renewable electricity with carbon recycling by turning carbon dioxide into useful chemicals. Researchers report that the sulfate reducing bacteri ... more MoSi2 material points to new route for turning waste heat into power Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 Thermoelectric conversion devices offer a promising way to turn waste heat into usable electrical energy, improving the overall efficiency of engines and industrial systems that currently lose betwe ... more

Low frequency lasers modeled to greatly boost nuclear fusion rates Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 A new theoretical study shows that intense laser fields could greatly enhance nuclear fusion reactions by reshaping the collision energies of interacting nuclei before they tunnel through the Coulom ... more Oak Ridge team plans powerful test facility for next generation fusion components Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is joining with Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a world class high heat flux facility to test fusion en ... more Disordered rocksalt roadmap aims to boost lithium ion battery energy and cut critical metals Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A new scientific review describes how a little understood class of lithium ion battery cathode materials could support safer, higher energy storage while easing dependence on critical metals such as ... more KRISS process enables large-area solid electrolyte fabrication at lower cost Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has reported a materials breakthrough that moves oxide based all solid state batteries closer to commercial deployment. The work targets ... more UK facility scales hydrogen recycling of rare earth magnets London, UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 The University of Birmingham has launched a large scale rare earth magnet recycling facility in the West Midlands that aims to reduce the United Kingdom's reliance on imported rare earth metals, all ... more

Perovskite betavoltaic cell sets record efficiency using carbon 14 source Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 A research team at DGIST has developed a perovskite based self powered betavoltaic battery that achieves what they report as the worlds highest conversion efficiency for this class of device while m ... more Volvo Cars pauses battery factory after fruitless partner search Stockholm (AFP) Jan 13, 2026 Swedish automaker Volvo Cars said Tuesday that it was pausing operations at a battery factory under construction, dismissing all 75 workers there, after failing to find a partner for the business. ... more Lithium ion battery study on Tiangong space station explores microgravity effects on performance Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 A lithium ion battery experiment has been completed aboard China's Tiangong space station, focusing on basic electrochemical processes that govern performance and lifetime. Researchers at the Dalian ... more China ramps up CHSN01 fusion magnet jacket for cryogenic reactors Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 China has produced 30 tons of cryogenic jacket material made from its CHSN01 steel in continuous lengths of about 5 km for use in Cable-in-Conduit Conductors for future fusion reactors. The jacket i ... more Tokamak study maps error impacts on plasma equilibrium models Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 05, 2026 A research team led by Prof. LIU Haiqing at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has carried out a comprehensive analysis of uncertainty propagation in free-bo ... more

EAST experiments point to density free regime for fusion plasmas Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 05, 2026 Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized density-free regime for fusion plasmas, maintaining stable operation at densities that exceed conventional empirical limits. The results, reported in Science Advances on January 1, address a long-standing physical constraint on the path toward nuclear fusion ignition by showing that plasma density limits in tokamaks can be relaxed without triggering dis ... read more Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 A University of Cincinnati physicist and collaborators from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory MIT and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a theoretical framework showing how a ... more

Chitin based carbon aerogel boosts stable thermal energy storage Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 A team of materials scientists has developed a bio based carbon aerogel derived from chitin that improves thermal energy storage in shape stabilized phase change materials while addressing leakage d ... more Molecular catalyst switches between hydrogen and oxygen production Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is central to developing low-carbon energy systems, but current acidic electrolyzers depend on catalysts made from scarce metals such as iridium and pl ... more China's rare earths El Dorado gives strategic edge Ganzhou, China (AFP) Dec 21, 2025 Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry. ... more The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Fusion is the cosmic process that powers stars, shapes galaxies, and enables the chemical diversity needed for life. From the earliest stars to modern planetary systems, fusion converts hydrogen into heavier elements, forging the matter that makes up worlds, atmospheres, and living organisms. ... more Redesigned carbon framework boosts battery safety and power Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a covalently bridged fullerene framework that allows carbon-based lithium-ion battery anodes to store lithium in a more stable configuration while sup ... more

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