More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...

With decades of experience in national security, Jill Hruby joins the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board to help confront ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

This July 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists examines a number of similar potential flashpoints—around the world, in the skies above, and even in cyberspace—that, if activated, could ...

The speed of Earth’s rotation on its axis is increasing. The result of the increasing speed of Earth’s rotation has come in ...

A powerful new method to control magnetic behavior in ultra-thin materials could lead to faster, smaller and more ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a powerful method to look deep inside single-atom catalysts—materials where every ...