“In New Zealand’s compact capital Wellington, a small group of scientists and engineers just got a little closer to replicating the power of the sun.

OpenStar Technologies on Tuesday successfully floated a half-tonne magnet in a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber of glowing gas heated to more than a million degrees Celsius. A select audience — among them Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and All Blacks great Richie McCaw — looked on from a room above the chamber as the local start-up marked a breakthrough in its bid to achieve sustained nuclear fusion.”

From Bloomberg.