<p>  Scientists claim that China's "artificial Sun" nuclear reactor has more than doubled its own world record, confining extremely high-energy plasma for a whopping 1,066 seconds this week. That's in comparison to its previous record of 403 seconds, set in 2023. Using the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), scientists heated plasma to temperatures over 100 million degrees Celsius and managed to contain the swirling soup of atoms for almost 17 minutes. The goal is to essentially recreate the processes that power stars like the Sun inside nuclear fusion reactors as a way to produce a renewable source of green energy […]</p>