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

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...