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The world in 2050. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE.

The journal "Nature" looks to 2050: Nuclear fusion, Mars, and "lightless" laboratories – and it all depends on politics

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The prestigious journal marks the decisive junctures: the climate crisis and the response to it, the race for artificial intelligence infrastructure, questions of public trust and science funding, and the ability to transform breakthroughs into systems that work at scale.
Figure caption: Schematic illustration of the EAST tokamak operation during an electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH-assisted Ohmic start-up). Credit: Ning Yan.

China moves closer to igniting fusion thanks to breakthrough in high-density plasma

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Scientists working with China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have succeeded in reaching a state long predicted by theorists, known as the "density-free regime."

Hopes for 2026: Artificial womb, cell rejuvenation, nuclear fusion – and also science with artificial intelligence

Futurism, medicine, artificial womb, Yamanaka Factories, cell rejuvenation, nuclear fusion, small modular reactors, space medicine, microgravity, artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, air taxi
Chrysalis could house several generations of humans by the time it reaches Alpha Centauri, where it could land passengers on the surface of the planet Proxima Centauri b. (Credit: Giacomo Infelise, Veronica Magli, Guido Sbrogio', Nevenka Martinello, and Federica Chiara Serpe)

Chrysalis: The spaceship that will carry 2,400 passengers on a one-way, 400-year journey to Alpha Centauri

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A revolutionary design by young engineers proposes a giant ship 58 kilometers long, which will accommodate generations of colonists on their way to an Earth-like planet in the Alpha Centauri system.
A night full of stars. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Twinkle little star

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What are stars? Why do they twinkle? And how can we identify the planets closest to us in the starry sky?
Simulation of a nuclear fusion reactor. Courtesy of General Atomics.

A breakthrough in nuclear fusion - thanks to artificial intelligence

Sam Altman personally invested 375 million dollars in a company called Helion that is trying to develop a nuclear fusion reactor. So far this mission has not succeeded, but now artificial intelligence may improve the planning,
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Will we finally switch to the clean energy of nuclear fusion?

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The US Department of Energy has announced a major breakthrough after years of research into nuclear fusion, the "Holy Grail" of energy production.
The JET magnetic fusion experiment is the world's largest tokamak. EFDA JET/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA

Improving the sides of nuclear fusion reactors - progress towards new energy solutions

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Nuclear fusion reaches a milestone thanks to better reactor walls - this engineering development leads to the reactors of the future, say researchers following a successful UK experiment
Simulation of the nuclear fusion facility. Photo: ITER

to create the electricity that turns on the sun

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A diagram illustrating the fusion process of two baryons, each of which contains one heavy quark and two light quarks. In fusion, all the quarks are repackaged in a more efficient way, thus creating a baryon containing two heavy quarks and one light quark, alongside a neutron containing three light quarks. In this process a large amount of energy is released. Credit: Prof. Mark Karliner.

A study published in Nature in which a MTA researcher is involved reveals a process 8 times more powerful than the fusion of hydrogen in an atomic bomb

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A prototype of a compression system for a General Fusion reactor. The final device will use 200 pistons to compress plasma inside the ball at its center. (Courtesy of General Fusion)

Ideas that will change the world: easy fusion

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Clean, safe and cheap energy. The laser system for controlled fusion at NIF. Photo: National Ignition Facility NIF

Scientists in the US have taken an important step towards controlled nuclear fusion

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the experimental team

Chemical element number 114: one of the heaviest elements prepared

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The chemical element 117. Figure Kwei-Yu Chu/LLNL

The 117th chemical element in the periodic table was prepared

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The sun has no lithium because it has planets

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Chinese nuclear fusion experiment

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A star is born on Earth

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