The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

The current attacks on the U.S. system of scientific research will have real and debilitating consequences for our nation and its international position that will not be easily turned around ...

Scientists have observed the mechanism responsible for generating cosmic rays in a laboratory for the first time – a significant milestone in astrophysics.

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a groundbreaking method of particle acceleration that could unlock new understanding ...

Just 100 years ago, on 9 July 1925, Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his friend, colleague and fiercest critic, Wolfgang ...

Left: The first lines of the letter sent by Werner Heisenberg to Wolfgang Pauli on 9 July 1925, explaining his efforts to interpret quantum physics ...

This prompted Fermi to ask what was (to him) an obvious question: “where is everybody?” In a galaxy assumed to be filled with ...