Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a type of cement that, with the addition of a commonly-available substance that has been used for centuries, can act as a super-capacitor, capable of storing a large amount of electrical energy. Since cement is already an ingredient of concrete, theread more
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California have reproduced a crucial fusion ignition experiment that saw more energy produced from a hydrogen fusion reaction than what was used to start the reaction in the first place. Although the research team is still crunching the numbers, they sayread more
Taking Nikola Tesla’s dream of transmitting electrical power wirelessly over long distances one step further, an engineering team at the California Institute of Technology has successfully transmitted microwave energy across open space between the experimental components of an orbiting satellite—including sending a portion of this power as a signal to a groundread more
On August 8, 2021, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California succeeded in initiating nuclear ignition in a small capsule of heavy hydrogen isotopes, proving that the fusion process could be started by using powerful lasers; now, hot on the heels of last year’s breakthrough, researchers at the sameread more