EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear power has plenty of critics – those who point to the cost of building plants, environmental harm from mining uranium for nuclear fission, but most of all safety concerns. “To date, ...

In a four-part series, our podcast “Babbage” pulls back the curtain on the vast scientific infrastructure that America has created to build, maintain and upgrade its nuclear weapons. From the turn of ...

Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude less massive than standard neutrino detectors. The technique opens new ways to ...

Where did the world’s most devastating weapon come from? In a four-part series, we go behind the scenes at America’s nuclear laboratories to understand how a scientific-mystery story about the ...

A view from NIF’s Target Bay of some of the final optics assemblies surrounding the Target Chamber, the site of NIF’s inertial confinement fusion experiments. Credit: LLNL/NIF/Jason Laurea AI is ...

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

After Britain canceled Skybolt, the Vulcan was forced into a new role—low-level nuclear strikes. Hurtling at 470 mph just 300 ...

Cold fusion, one of the most notorious blunders in science, is making a return – of sorts. Scientists have resurrected an experiment that was once claimed to show room-temperature nuclear fusion, ...