Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.

In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable speed. Some say it reached space, beating Sputnik by months. This video ...

The claim that Britain’s nuclear weapons makes us safe – the myth that this government like every other before it continues ...

The atomic bomb dropped over Hirsoshima vaporized buildings, metals, soil, water, and people, and about 70% of the city's ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

Rapidly cooled Two microscope images of the metal sphere that contained the new alloy. (Courtesy: University of Florence/CC BY-SA 4.0) One of my favourite books about physics is The Second Kind of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...