More than a century after their invention, tungsten filaments—the coiled metal wires at the heart of many incandescent light bulbs—continue to be popular. This is despite the growing market for LED ...

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The IAEA is launching a new five-year Coordinated Research Project (CRP F43028) to assemble, validate and distribute data on tungsten impurity processes in fusion plasmas—critical for advancing ...

The sun-mimicking technology known as nuclear fusion hopes to create “limitless” energy by smashing light nuclei together using immense heat, but containing such hot plasma is proving tricky. A ...