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 ...

documented in a 2019 paper in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, co-authored by Robert Alvarez. The NCI responds that its researchers focused on exposures received among “New Mexico ...

John Holdren, a Harvard research professor and former President Obama's science advisor, recalls Garwin's amazing combination ...

"We see for the first time the effect of a quasar's radiation directly on the internal structure of the gas in an otherwise ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these ...

A new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder is helping researchers count seconds to ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

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