Japan's long wait of 15 years for a BSL-4 lab to study deadly viruses got longer after public opposition to the setup at ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

I, Donald John Trump, will drop an atomic bomb on you, Canada, unless you reduce the price of automatic transmissions for use in our great American automobiles immediately.

What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 to 15, ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

Initial projections estimated a 1% chance of collision, but recent calculations have doubled those odds to 2.3%. Scientists admit, however, that much remains unknown about the asteroid's size and ...

Over the past two years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created a dilemma for tech behemoths: How can ...