There was an interesting article last week in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists titled "The ick factor won't stop alt meat," a review of a new book by cultivated-meat advocate Bruce Friedrich. The ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

Middle East tensions hinge on Iran’s uranium enrichment as Geneva talks resume, balancing civilian energy claims against nuclear weapons fears, amid US pressure, Iranian resistance, and looming ...

On 5 February, the planet entered an even more precarious era of escalating nuclear risks. The expiration of a strategic-arms ...

The Genesis Mission, led by the Department of Energy, is bringing together all 17 of the U.S. national laboratories to use artificial intelligence systems, in combination with supercomputers and emerg ...

By harnessing two natural timescales in resonator arrays, researchers created photonic chips that reliably produce multiple ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.

From Trinity’s fallout to a New Mexico school underground, “Nuclear Family” traces how the bomb reshaped one family and a ...

Christopher Yeaw, assistant secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, spoke to a U.N.-backed ...

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a third plutonium core was prepared for potential use against Japan. Instead, it remained in US custody and became infamous for two deadly laboratory accidents that ...