Atoms are the building blocks of all matter, from the air we breathe to every cell in our bodies. Yet despite their presence everywhere, no one has truly seen an atom with the naked eye ,until ...

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away.

Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through ...

Scientists have tapped artificial intelligence and powerful computing to take a first step to speed up how quickly officials ...

Was it right to use the bomb? In this video, photographer Yoshito Matsushige describes what it felt like to be in Hiroshima immediately after the explosion.