The goal of conducting a fast-tracked nuclear test can only be political, not scientific. The United States has much to lose ...

A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors could in theory protect the U.S. from an all-out Russian nuclear ...

When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

“What we're seeing now, several years later, is how deep those divisions really are,” said Cary Funk, who previously led ...

Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

You may think we have too many nuclear weapons. Or you may think we don’t have enough. One thing you most certainly do not think, however, is that we should arbitrarily fire the people who keep these ...

America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that ...

Today, the Council signed off on a revised regulation on the application of Euratom safeguards, the nuclear materials supervision system in the EU within the Euratom Community.