" We The People" focuses on Iowan Harley Wilhelm. He is the Iowa State chemistry professor who helped stop a world war and spark the nuclear age.

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

Following the horrifying nuclear detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union initially lagged in the atomic ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Scientists observing a dramatic cosmic outburst have confirmed a prediction first explored in Albert ...

Justice Department reporters Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer delivered the first full, authoritative account of the long ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family's Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Authorities are investigating an alleged bomb threat that was phoned into St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton Thursday night, the latest in a series of bomb threats made to institutions in the city.

The Michigan home of Sen. Elissa Slotkin was targeted with a bomb threat just days after she appeared in a video telling troops to defy "illegal" orders. A spokesperson for the Michigan Democrat ...