Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday (January 27) closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior ...

The new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.

It was the most expensive weapon in human history, costing more than the project that built the Atomic Bomb itself. The B-29 ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

Investors are withdrawing from sovereign bonds and currencies in an attempt to shield their assets from geopolitical ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Chinese scientists have discovered ultratiny, "linear" boundaries inside three-dimensional crystals that could eventually ...

Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...

Speaking on the prospect of artificial general intelligence, LeCun suggested it’s a misnomer, because human intelligence, in his view, is not general. He prefers the term “human-level intelligence,” ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that the Carnot principle, a foundational rule of thermodynamics, does not fully apply ...