China's PLA Rocket Force is operating mobile ballistic missile launchers that are disguised to resemble civilian construction ...

Using a technique inspired by old-fashioned jewelry making, a UCLA-led research team has discovered how to build the core of ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

Kiefer Sherwood had three goals for his second hat trick of the season as the Vancouver Canucks beat the New York Islanders 4-1 on Friday night ...

Scientists have demonstrated a simpler way to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms with laser light, revealing a direct electrical signal tied to nuclear activity. By moving from specialized crystals ...

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and emit photons like electrons in an atom do. This ...

Poetry-based prompts can bypass safety features in AI models like ChatGPT to obtain instructions for creating malware or chemical and nuclear weapons, a new study finds. Generative AI makers such as ...

Since their creation, nuclear weapons have struck awe and horror in the popular imagination, including that of the scientists who helped create them. The horrific damage, death and destruction caused ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

In 1957 cameras caught a jaw-dropping moment: a B‑47 Stratojet (130,000 lb) roaring in low, then yanking into a steep climb and flipping as a bomb launches backwards from its belly. But this wasn’t a ...

FIRST ON FOX: A new report warns the U.S. nuclear arsenal is dangerously outdated and too small to confront growing global threats — and recommends nearly tripling the number of deployed American ...