At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

The US DoE is advancing a permit improvement that could increase waste processing efficiency at the Hanford Site cleanup facility.

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

Innovation is one of the most celebrated yet misunderstood ideas of our time. It is invoked in policy speeches, corporate strategy decks and university mission statements. But strip away the buzzword ...

Today, certain forces in Washington are adding a new, dangerous layer of absurdity to this tale, casting the US as a modern-day Don Quixote - or as we might call it, "Don Qui-nuke." Following the ...

Evan Soltas and Jonathan Gruber have published a paper titled, “How Costly Is Permitting in Housing Development?”. They ...

Worcester's "Father of Modern Rocketry," Robert H. Goddard, is the subject of a new musical, "The Rocket Man." ...

About 1,670 Connecticut residents are enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program, according to the CDC.

# 25 Historical Decisions That Could Have Ended the World ![Cracked globe overlaid with historical elements, representing the ...

Who deserves nuclear bombs? The answer is whoever feels threatened enough, and has the means and knowledge to build them.

A reflection on how generative AI may be altering culture itself — and why some readers may begin seeking “low-background” ...