As companies around the world work to commercialize fusion energy—clean power generated by combining two light atoms—not much ...

In the summer of 1939, a quiet conversation at Albert Einstein’s Long Island home helped push the United States toward the atomic age. This video examines the fears, politics, and moral compromises ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists have discovered that the trillion-degree hot primordial "soup" that filled the cosmos for mere millionths ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support ...

For each of these 160 researchers, the Niels Bohr Library & Archives will forever be connected to them, in a footnote at ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

A new computational framework maps 3D atomic positions in amorphous materials, achieving full accuracy for silica using ...

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...

At the request of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the "Father of Oak Ridge" Kenneth Nichols retired from the Army to become general manager of the AEC.

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.