PARIS: Scientists on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) announced an important advance in the long quest to harness nuclear fusion, a field that has sparked dreams of clean and limitless energy.

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and other stars, entails forging the nuclei of atoms to release energy, as opposed to splitting them, which is fission—the principle behind the atomic bomb and nuclear power.

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