It was the world's first test of a nuclear bomb, also known as "Trinity Test." The explosion was equal to 21 kilotons of TNT, ...

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

Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through ...

Eighty years ago today, at 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history ...

The nature of dark matter is one of the leading mysteries in modern astronomy. In fact, the name "dark matter" is essentially a placeholder for something astronomers know is there but can't yet ...

A major blackout would disrupt our entire way of life. It’s time to create a civil defense should this happen. I recall the ...

So far, radioactive dogs have not been used for breeding. To date, Beagleville has not been attacked by anti-vivisectionists. One reason may be that most of the beagles are healthy and happy.

But, Collar thinks that dark-matter research would benefit from new approaches and ideas rather than beating the competition with bigger, more-sensitive versions of the same detectors. "There is ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...

On July 16, 1945, just 12 years after Fritz Zwicky proposed dark matter in 1933, another physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, succeeded along with the rest of the scientists at Los Alamos in ...