A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in US president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. Trump's ...

With its depiction of the first atomic bomb explosion, "Oppenheimer" highlights the massive destructive power of these early nuclear weapons. While you might want to brush up on your physics before ...

For the first time, scientists used an atomic nucleus as a clock. The world’s most precise timepieces are made using atoms, specifically their electrons. But clocks based on atomic nuclei — protons ...

Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus ...

Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single platinum atoms in solid supports as well as their spatial orientation. In the future, this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb ...