Excerpts from the book Ghosts of Hiroshima, which James Cameron has pledged to turn into his next movie after he's finished ...

A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a ...

Why do the atomic weights on the periodic table keep changing? Kit Chapman meets the team behind the decimal places ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of ...

On the surface, Russia and China flaunt their “No Limits Partnership,” but a secret Russian intelligence document reveals ...

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 was made.

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known fundamental particles and three forces: electromagnetism, ...

This study focused on how two radioactive isotopes, actinium and radium, become part of these nanocrystals so they can be delivered to cancer cells. Using a combination of experimental synthesis and ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

A Manawatū iwi leader criticised the secret establishment of a radioactive waste facility near Palmerston North, citingsafety concerns and exclusion from decision-making.