Computer simulation of a grain boundary (green) in uranium oxide. Uranium atoms are yellow, oxygen atoms are red. These simulations are helping researchers understand how hydrogen interacts with ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

Nuclear clocks would measure time based on changes inside an atom's nucleus, which would make them less sensitive to external disturbances and potentially more accurate than atomic clocks. These ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded very near the beginning of the nuclear age, just a few months after American atomic bombs decimated two Japanese cities at the end of World War II.

US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

Throughout 2025, several US states have taken steps to facilitate development of new nuclear reactors. Complementing several recent executive orders of the US administration in support of nuclear ...

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...

In a unique public communication project, Rosatom has lent its support to a feature film set at a nuclear power plant. Atomic Ivan follows a demanding and ambitous young scientist with an obsession ...

Sale of the low-pressure coolant ODIN ™ enables NANO Nuclear to sharpen focus on its portfolio of gas-cooled technologies — KRONOS MMR ™, LOKI MMR ™, and ZEUS ™ — and maximize developmental and ...