The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, New START, has raised the spectre of a nuclear arms race ...

What happens if Earth stops rotating?Etan MeyerBoca Raton, FL I will assume you're referring to what would happen if Earth stopped rotating all at once, without any gradual reduction in velocity. In ...

Infleqtion, formerly ColdQuanta, is an under-the-radar quantum computing and sensing company set to go public in the coming weeks via SPAC merger with well-known Wall Street dealmaker Michael Klein’s ...

The former U.S. president has warned that the expiration of the New START treaty would "wipe out decades of diplomacy." ...

Nuclear winter is a warning written in the language of climate models and atmospheric chemistry. It's a disaster we should ...

On July 1, 1946, the world watched, literally, through newsreels and radio broadcasts, as the United States detonated “Able,” ...

Picture stepping into a world where every corner whispers stories from decades past, where treasures wait patiently beneath layers of history. That's exactly what awaits at one of North Carolina's ...

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

By replacing single atoms with an entangled pair of ions, physicists in Germany have demonstrated unprecedented stability in ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years’ time, they could ...

A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, ...