Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...

After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the world’s top experts on nuclear weapons spoke out on a dark subject: the high ...

Did you feel that? The planet spun a bit faster last week, by enough to give us our shortest day of the year, so far.

A new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. The results of this research are now ...

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

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 ...

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us ...

From the internet to the ozone layer, AI to the human genome, UC scientists have turned federal research funding into history ...

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