Fusion has long promised clean, virtually limitless energy but turning that promise into reality has proved slow, complex, and costly. Oxford‑based First Light Fusion is one firm pursuing a different path. Using high‑velocity impact physics rather than vast magnetic systems, the company aims to trigger fusion through precision‑engineered projectiles in an attempt to simplify one of science’s hardest problems.
Fusion has long promised clean, virtually limitless energy but turning that promise into reality has proved slow, complex, and costly. Oxford‑based First Light Fusion is one firm pursuing a different path. Using high‑velocity impact physics rather than vast magnetic systems, the company aims to trigger fusion through precision‑engineered projectiles in an attempt to simplify one of science’s hardest problems.
Russia launched strikes on several cities across Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. The spate of attacks comes just hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had received a report from the Ukrainian Air Force that Russia was preparing a “massive attack” on the Ukrainian capital.
Video shared by CNN affiliate BFMTV shows a deer being rescued in the Gironde region, France. According to BFMTV, three people helped the animal after finding it dehydrated in a wildfire-hit area.
CNN is outside Aeon shopping mall in Kumamoto, southern Japan, where at least three people are dead and three are missing, its operator said, after the building partially collapsed in a likely gas explosion after Tuesday’s 6.8- magnitude earthquake. At least 14 people have died in the earthquake, CNN affiliate TV Asahi reported. CNN’s Yumi Asada reports.
Historic wildfires in southwestern Europe have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, one of the biggest evacuations efforts Europe has seen since World War II. What may have contributed to it?
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared alongside his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, who is widely seen as his likely successor, at events marking the anniversary of the Korean War armistice. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
Before and after images show the devastating impact of wildfires on the Gironde region in France. The town of Le Porge was evacuated as flames approached, forcing the majority of 3,500 residents to leave their homes behind.
For over 2000 years, Christians have called the Holy Land home. CNN's Clarissa Ward travels from Jerusalem to the occupied West Bank to explore how Israeli ultranationalist extremism is changing that reality.
