A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima has appealed to scientists in France to conduct research that will lead to the elimination of nuclear weapons.

It has been 70 years since a group calling itself the “Atomic Scientists of Chicago” issued its first dispatch. At the start, the group consisted of a handful of veterans of the Manhattan Project, ...

"The operation was a success but the patient died" is an old trope in medicine. Similarly, epidemics and pandemics can be ...

Scientists have decoded the atomic structure of Photosystem I from a 3-billion-year-old cyanobacteria lineage, offering a unique look at early oxygen-producing photosynthesis. The ancient nanodevice, ...

An international collaboration of scientists working with the FAIR Phase 0 program at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

We have a responsibility to ensure that our discoveries are used in the public interest. That isn’t always easy.

For the first time, physicists have captured images of isolated atoms freely interacting in space. This breakthrough ...

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

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

In these semiconductors, that polarity can flip under an electric field—and stay that way even after the field is gone.

Scientists at EPFL and AstraZeneca have developed a method to map the atomic-level structure of amorphous drugs, demonstrated on a GLP-1 receptor agonist candidate for diabetes and obesity treatment.