Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...

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 ...

FOX 32 Chicago. Scientists head to Chicago to set 'Doomsday Clock' Posted: November 4, 2024 | Last updated: January 18, 2025. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded at the University of ...

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

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

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. At first, they didn’t believe the news, ...