A new slim volume examines the history of the science behind the atomic age. Craig Kenny looks at this tale of terror ...

Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear ...

Happy birthday to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 75 years of alerting the world to impending doom. Federal cuts threaten independent journalism. Here's what that means for you. ...

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

Mike Moore was the editor of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the 1990s and the public face of the magazine’s famous and symbolic “Doomsday Clock.” The clock was ...

Of the many legends from the creation of the first atomic weapons, 75 years ago, one important truth has been lost. Many scientists involved in the Manhattan Project did not want to build the bomb.

Atomic scientists kept their “Doomsday Clock” set at 90 seconds to midnight, citing threats from multiple wars, nuclear weapons and climate change as factors.

Atomic scientists moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine and other factors underlying the risks of global ...

Scientists are inching one step closer toward redefining the length of a second. To do that, they're using atomic clocks. Atomic clocks, which look like a jumble of lasers and wires, work by ...

Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed Israel's ...