The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change.. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

The goals of their new organization and their new journal were, as the first issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago put it in December of 1945, twofold: “To explore, clarify and ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, based at the University of Chicago, uses the clock as a metaphor to show how close the planet is to reaching human extinction. Believe it or not, the goal of the ...

But scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a device that could obtain medical results without needles. The device is called the airborne biomarker localization engine, or ABLE.

A force that couples electrons and neutrons could be an addition to the Standard Model, and a new study places an upper limit ...

Richard Garwin, Chicago physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and worked to see it wasn't used, dead at 97 He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president ...

This excerpt from “Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence” explores what caused three lives to change forever.

Scientists used fluid dynamics to learn how to get the most flavor from pour-over coffee. By Katrina Miller More than a billion cups of coffee are consumed daily: French-press, espresso, cold brew ...

Scientists studying a promising quantum material have stumbled upon a surprise: within its crystal structure, the material naturally forms one of the world's thinnest semiconductor junctions—a ...

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have created a machine learning algorithm that can observe the pattern produced by nanocrystals to infer the material’s atomic structure, as described in a ...

In 2022, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimated that Russia had 1,912 of these missiles. The US was thought to have 200, including 100 deployed across five European countries.

But scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a device that could obtain medical results without needles. The device is called the airborne biomarker localization engine, or ABLE.