On the 80-year anniversary of the United States' detonation of the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...

In mid-July 1945, the world’s first atomic weapon was assembled for a test in a remote corner of the New Mexico desert known ...

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic weapon of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of ...

TPU researchers, together with their colleagues from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, have developed a model that ...

"Little Boy" used uranium-235 and had a slim, 10-foot design, long like a car but thin and "cute." In contrast, "Fat Man" was ...

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima. Decades later, people in the ...

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world ...

The smell of burning flesh, unrecognisable bodies. More than 200,000 dead. Have we forgotten the sheer horror of August 1945?

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging ...

The Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight as analysts debate nuclear deterrence effectiveness amid rising tensions with ...

A new gold-coating method smooths out microscopic defects in quantum chips, dramatically reducing signal loss and decoherence ...