A team of physicists managed to generate a nuclear fusion reaction using a device that can fit on a tabletop.
The device, called a Z-pinch, operates in a similar way to any other fusion reaction but it can do so at a much smaller scale than the building-sized generators that scientists typically use to explore fusion.
Scientists from the University of Washington built a 1.5-meter Z-pinch device that was able to sustain a nuclear fusion reaction for five microseconds.
