A nuclear fusion reactor in Germany has reached world record numbers for runtime. The tokamak dominates fusion research in 2025, but stellarators are making a comeback. A stellarator is still a donut ...

While social media posts in 2025 didn't give the story a date, it happened in 2018. He achieved fusion on his 13th birthday, but several hours before his birth time, according to Guinness World ...

Feb. 18, 2025 — French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes, a 25 percent improvement over the ...

Aiden McMillan, a 12-year-old student in Dallas, Texas, has built a home nuclear fusion device and is seeking a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to do so.

During the pandemic lockdown, while much of the world stalled, Aidan McMillan decided to build something. At 8 years old, he wasn't interested in assembling Legos or constructing a tree house. He ...

Researchers have been able to experimentally enter, for the first time, a new nuclear fusion regime, with plasma density beyond the conventional limit. While theories had suggested a strategy to ...

An awe-inspiring science project by a Dallas ISD seventh-grader is now drawing national attention, as the student works to secure a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future. But after decades of waiting for progress, people are understandably growing more and more skeptical that our ...

13-year-old Aidan McMillan stands next to his nuclear fusor at Launchpad Incubator on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, in Dallas. Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer During the pandemic lockdown, while much ...