US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for ...

Scientists have managed to uncover a new magic number that could help us rethink and redefine the origins of everything that exists in our Universe. A team of physicists at the Institute of Modern ...

Researchers at CERN have made a great step forward in revealing how atomic nuclei behave after they mapped the edge of a mysterious ‘island of inversion’ where the standard rules of nuclear physics do ...

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...

Isabelle Boemeke has a cause that’s raising eyebrows. Isabelle Boemeke has a cause that’s raising eyebrows. The model turned nuclear power influencer in California this month.Credit...JJ Geiger for ...

We talk to José Reyes about the company’s design and their vision for what small-scale nuclear power could look like. Note: The following transcript was transcribed digitally and validated for ...

Now, the world’s first nuclear influencer is coming out with a book. The book, Rad Future, is on sale August 12. It’s an approachable breakdown of what the model-turned-nuclear-influencer has learned ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...