When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

"Steelmakers" is an accessible entry point to the environmental, industrial, immigrant, and labor histories of the Calumet region.

The US science crisis presents an opportunity to reinvent funding and management of the global research enterprise.

Mary Nichols is a retired research hydraulic engineer with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a PhD in ...

Edward R. Landa is an adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland-College Park, and a scientist (emeritus) with the US Geological Survey.

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls ...

Scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University have discovered an unexpected ...

Learn about Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for quantum electrodynamics, his unique teaching style, ...

Data from a South Pole observatory shows that the fraction of protons in ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays is lower than expected.

However, aluminum is tricky. The element is difficult to measure with lasers, as well as cool to absolute zero. But when ...

Terrence Sejnowski, a distinguished professor in UC San Diego’s School of Biological Sciences, has been selected to join two ...