Kirsten Angeles is an incoming master’s student in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of ...

With all of the current angst about tariffs and other issues, it is easy to forget that there are missile silos around the ...

In May, 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for WHO to address the health ...

This issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is devoted to lessons learned from the recent COVID pandemic—and how to stop or constrain the next pandemic, by buttressing public support for ...

Scientists have confirmed when they believe Elon Musk's bleak doomsday prediction regarding the end of humanity could come true. For some reason, we love predicting when the Earth will finally ...

WooGlobe Scientists confirm when Elon Musk's bleak doomsday prediction about the end of humanity! Posted: May 11, 2025 | Last updated: May 11, 2025 Elon Musk has long warned that Earth won’t ...

US President Donald Trump’s recent re-allocation of funds away from certain NASA projects and toward Elon Musk’s mission to Mars research with SpaceX may be on the back of an Elon Musk doomsday ...

I think back on all this every time I look into the control room this week, because Columbus has once again received a new external payload: ACES, the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space. The experiment ...

NIST scientists Greg Hoth (left) and Vladislav Gerginov work on NIST-F4, NIST’s new cesium fountain clock, one of the most precise atomic clocks ever created. (Image credit: R. Eskalis/NIST) But ...

Roughly one month later, on the afternoon of August 6, 1945, the German scientists learned that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima. At first, they didn’t believe the news, as they had ...

At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could become 1,000 times more accurate than today's standards.