July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based on a trapped ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

News Published: 16 June 1934 Possible Production of Elements of Atomic Number Higher than 92 PROF. E. FERMI Nature 133, 898–899 (1934) Cite this article ...