The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

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

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 ...

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

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

The first atomic bomb, nicknamed ‘The Gadget’, was launched at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 1945. Led ...

The physicist Luis Alvarez was a wide-ranging thinker who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and upended the ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

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