Go to updated and illustrated post. 1989: Two electrochemists announce they've produced energy with a fusion reaction in a benchtop apparatus at room temperature. The world reacts with surprise, ...

A technique that some scientists claim generates thermonuclear fusion in a benchtop apparatus works even without its controversial neutron trigger. So say the researchers who, since 2002, have ...

Scientists from the University of British Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Google are conducting a ...