China “Artificial Sun” has Just Broken a Record
Illustration of the fusion inside a tokamak. Credits: Wikimedia CommonsChina has reached a new milestone in mankind's experiments to control the power of the stars.China AcademyIn May, the Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds.The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for...