After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the world’s top experts on nuclear weapons spoke out on a dark subject: the high ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...