South Africa's first black female nuclear scientist, Senamile Masango, a trailblazer who set out to inspire young women, has died aged 37, the government has confirmed. Ms Masango, dubbed "the queen ...

“Resuming atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons would be disastrous,” says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He cited the “lessons learned from ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter believed to be everywhere, outnumbering regular matter (what we're made of) 5-to ...

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

"If they try to enforce their anti-climate prejudice, they’re going to end up inevitably hurting people’s health as well." ...

Nanotechnology, a groundbreaking field that involves manipulating matter at the molecular and atomic levels, is rapidly ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a groundbreaking method to transform graphite into materials with ...

Scientists have taken a bold step toward understanding dark matter, the invisible force shaping the cosmos. Using atomic ...

Amid the "pick your apocalypse" options the world faces right now - climate change and nuclear annihilation loom pretty high. Just two weeks ago the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday… ...