North Korea's latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Oct. 31 underscores the unusual aircraft's importance ...

Areas downwind of pollutant-generating factories were found to have more snowfall, with aerosols suspected of triggering ice ...

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss was only in office for 45 days, but spent the final days of premiership analysing weather ...

Blasting brain tumours with particles developed by nuclear physicists could prove a new cure for cancer, research suggests.

Iran nuclear crisis in 300 words Why do the limits ... in five objects The IAEA report said its inspectors had "detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran ...

Large accelerators can destroy cancer cells, reveal the structure of proteins and viruses, and optimize vaccines and new drugs. Some accelerators — the largest ones — are used to make sub-nuclear ...

The bombs get their energy from either splitting atoms or joining the tiny particles inside the atoms together. That's also why a nuclear bomb is sometimes called an atomic bomb. Nuclear weapons ...

Kyukichi Tsutsui, a former captain of a Japanese tuna fishing boat exposed to nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb ...

gravity and the weak nuclear force). The strong force holds together quarks, the fundamental particles that make up the protons and neutrons of the atomic nucleus, and further holds together ...

From long exposure to freeze-frame snapshots For decades, scientists used low-energy experiments to infer nuclear shapes — for example, by exciting the nuclei and observing photons, or particles of ...