PPPL STELLAR-AI Project – How AI Supercomputing Is Accelerating Fusion Energy Research
For decades, nuclear fusion has represented one of humanity’s most ambitious scientific pursuits. The promise is extraordinary: near-limitless clean energy, minimal long-term radioactive waste, and no carbon emissions. Yet fusion has historically been constrained by staggering scientific complexity, engineering challenges, and computational limitations. Now, artificial intelligence and supercomputing are reshaping the timeline. The Princeton Plasma […]
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis 2026: Understanding U.S.–China Strategic Thresholds
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis in 2026 marks one of the most consequential moments in contemporary East Asian geopolitics. As tensions escalate between China and the United States over Taiwan, the crisis exposes both the fragility of regional stability and the carefully calibrated limits of modern great-power competition. Unlike sudden military confrontations of the past, […]