The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

NAGASAKI, Japan (Kyodo) -- Nagasaki on Sunday warned nuclear powers and nations relying on nuclear deterrence of the ...

We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn was torn open at 5:29 am on 16 July 1945, it was, without a doubt, a pivotal moment in humanity's ...

Locked inside glassy fallout particles, the strange alloy could only form in a nuclear blast.

The Tsar Bomba remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Tested by the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961, this ...

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...

Rapidly cooled Two microscope images of the metal sphere that contained the new alloy. (Courtesy: University of Florence/CC BY-SA 4.0) One of my favourite books about physics is The Second Kind of ...