For more than a decade, physicists have faced a puzzling situation: the size of the proton, the nucleus of the hydrogen atom, ...

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Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

Researchers precisely measured the proton’s size, resolving the proton radius puzzle and strengthening confidence in the Standard Model of particle physics.

L uis Alvarez ​ gets only a bit part in Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer. In January 1939, the news arrives in Berkeley ...

At least 1,500 malicious packages were published to the Arch User Repository (AUR) as part of the Atomic Arch supply chain ...

Eventually, some 30 years after the fire, the investigation into the Windscale disaster was fully declassified, bringing fully to light the U.K.’s worst nuclear disaster for the first time.

Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the 2026 Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight — the closest humanity has stood to potential catastrophe in the clock's 77-year history. Scientists cited ...

The official verdict warns a nuclear incident at the STEP fusion project in Nottinghamshire could lead to “contamination of farmland” and to “many years of farming profit losses”. Models suggest there ...

The risk that Iran is covertly pursuing nuclear weapons is higher today than before the US and Israel launched their first military attacks on the Islamic Republic a year ago, according to western ...