Radioactive powder began falling on Rongelap Atoll several hours after the United States detonated the Castle Bravo nuclear ...

Researchers believe the newly discovered metal could help in developing lighter and more heat-resistant materials in the ...

Prompt radiation is emitted within moments of a nuclear detonation. Radioactive particles deposited in soil, water and ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

Locked inside glassy fallout particles, the strange alloy could only form in a nuclear blast.

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab was expected to announce his government’s resignation Monday amid popular outrage over the deadly Beirut port explosion that has reignited angry street protests.

It was a rare Earth metal. Often cited among the most destructive forces in history, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 also gave rise to a rare metal never seen on Earth, per a ...

Hedley Marston could be charming, genial and witty, but he was not above fulmination, especially where fulminations of a different kind were concerned. In the mid-1950s, the CSIRO biochemist emerged ...