Eighty years after the founding of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and 55 years after the first Earth Day, humanity faces a growing profusion of existential threats. Most people—including ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

'Doomsday Clock' ticked another second closer to destruction at the start of 2025.

The day finally arrived. Just one game before facing the Toronto Raptors, LeBron James has exactly 10 to keep his illustrious ...

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some ...

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

Noah Oppenheim was interested in why the world hasn't already ended in nuclear apocalypse. In 'A House of Dynamite,' he ...

Ultimately, no one stands to benefit more from this incipient trend toward climate sanity than the American people themselves ...