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 ...

“I soon discovered I could do a DIY nuclear fusor.” An entire community of scientists of all ages is trying to build fusors. While a lot of teens are spending their time on Facebook or Twitter, Steven ...

We’ve seen our fair share of Farnsworth–Hirsch fusors over the years — these high-voltage devices can get ions cooking to the point of achieving nuclear fusion even on a hobbyist’s budget, and even ...

Nuclear fusion, as a method of power generation, continues to elude humanity. It promises cheap, virtually limitless energy, if only we could find a way to achieve it. On the other hand, achieving ...

Nigerian teenager, Steven Udotong, has invented a nuclear energy fusor, making him the first black student to attain such feat. A fusor is a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to suitable ...

TL;DR: A Canadian man, known as Hudzah, achieved nuclear fusion at home for $3000 using Claude AI and OpenAI o1 pro. He built a fusor to detect neutrons, not to achieve full fusion, using materials ...

Great Ball of Fire description The history of fusion power is also a history of scientific frustration. Youngster Thiago Olsen built a safe, fully functional fusion reactor while in high school, but ...