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

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 ...

A clever method from Caltech researchers now makes it possible to unravel complex electron-lattice interactions, potentially transforming how we understand and design quantum and electronic materials.

On 13 June, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) launched 'Operation Rising Lion' against the Islamic Republic of Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, missile sites, military leadership, and nuclear ...

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

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we talk about how humans have imagined the world ending, and what it says about us.

A new AI tool trained on real microscopy data simulates nanoparticle movement with high accuracy, helping scientists decode ...

Researchers have developed a breakthrough semiconductor alloy that paves the way for advanced quantum, photonic, and ...

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 ...

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.

We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish ...