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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...