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 ...

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...

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 ...

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.

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.

An iceberg the size of Chicago was previously attached to the George VI Ice Shelf. Later, it broke away from the shelf, and at that moment, scientists were using the remotely operated underwater ...

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.