Howorth must have been talented at promotion and publicity, because the letter that arrived in 1948—“out of the blue,” ...

Physicists at CERN have found a new way to peer deep inside atomic nuclei and distinguish between two competing explanations ...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, spent years wrestling with the conflict between his science and the dictates of his conscience. In part because he publicly expressed his concerns ...

How can we predict the way a real material, such as a polymer, responds mechanically over timescales ranging from the ...

Review of The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era, by Craig Nelson (Scribner 2014), 448 pages, ISBN- 978-1451660432 The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall ...

An atomic clock that could transform deep-space travel has successfully completed its first test run in space. NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, which launched on a satellite in June 2019, outperformed ...

A nuclear weapon is a certain thing—atomic or hydrogen, fission or fusion, bomb or missile, so many megatons—but nothing could be more uncertain than the consequences of using one. Nine nations have ...

Here's a novel pathway to a more sustainable planet: carbo-loading for the public good. In a new study published in Nature Synthesis, chemists at Yale and the University of California-Berkeley have ...

A new measurement moves scientists closer to revamping how we keep time. After scientists redefined the unit of mass, the kilogram, in 2019, they set their sights on overhauling the fundamental unit ...