Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever ...

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Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday updating guidance for researchers and government agencies with the ...

But nearly all scientists look back with longing to their ... The Russian Government, painfully conscious of its atomic-bomblessness, had made Kapitza’s name a national reassurance.

Forward-looking: Scientists have discovered a new species of cable bacteria that uses distinctive nickel-based fibers to conduct electricity, revealing key insights into its evolutionary history.

Neutrinos and antineutrinos are elementary particles with small but unknown mass. High-precision atomic mass measurements have revealed that beta decay of the silver-110 isomer has a strong potential ...