A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" is now set to 89 seconds to midnight.

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

Scientists have developed a new method for measuring temperature extremely accurately by using giant 'Rydberg' atoms. This atomic thermometer provides accurate measurements 'out of the box,' without ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is commemorating the anniversary with a new exhibition, The Cavendish Laboratory and the Birth of the Atomic Age, which opened in late November and ...

The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail how the a graphene sheet used as a crystal grating withstood 100 hours of irradiation from an atom beam without damage, and distinctive circular ...

Stepping down: Lia Merminga has resigned as Fermilab director after a turbulent few years at the lab (courtesy: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab) Tracy Marc, a spokerperson for Fermilab, says that the search for ...