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

It has been 70 years since a group calling itself the “Atomic Scientists of Chicago” issued its first dispatch. At the start, the group consisted of a handful of veterans of the Manhattan Project, ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded at the University of Chicago to warn the public about the dangers of nuclear technology. The nonprofit now focuses on initiatives like climate ...

A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but ...

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.

An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich has succeeded in visualizing magnetism inside solids with ...

Roughly one month later, on the afternoon of August 6, 1945, the German scientists learned that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima.

Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions in other world hot spots ...

By studying chipmunk and vole specimens hidden away in the backroom drawers of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, a research team—lead by assistant curator of mammals Anderson Feijó ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies required. The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail ...