Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear ...

With decades of experience in national security, Jill Hruby joins the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board to help confront ...

A new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. The results of this research are now ...

A team of NYU chemists and physicists are using cutting-edge tools—holographic microscopy and super-resolution imaging—to unlock how cells build and grow tiny, dynamic droplets known as biomolecular ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us ...

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

A clever method from Caltech researchers now makes it possible to unravel complex electron-lattice interactions, potentially transforming how we understand and design quantum and electronic materials.

From the internet to the ozone layer, AI to the human genome, UC scientists have turned federal research funding into history ...

Hazardous "forever chemicals" contaminate drinking water, soil and food worldwide. Who is responsible for their contamination?