Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Safety Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s ...

Ultra-stable laser technology is being used to detect earthquakes in the Southwest Pacific thanks to an inventive method ...

Lex Fridman, MIT scientist and host of The Lex Fridman Podcast, has made waves in both academia and media. His recent ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Scientists involved in coastal research at a Charleston laboratory are in the government’s crosshairs as President Donald ...

A deadly strain of H5N1, commonly known as avian flu, has been found in birds across the Antarctic peninsula. Scientists are worried about the devastating impact the virus could have on wildlife.

Soon after the start of the pandemic, as Covid-19 spread its trail of death and devastation around the planet, I came across ...

A submarine telecommunications cable connecting New Zealand and Australia is doubling as an earthquake sensor, in a new trial ...

Now a startup called Stardust seeks something more ambitious: developing proprietary geoengineering technology that would ...

Ruth Steward (née Silberschmidt) passed away on the morning of January 2, 2025. Ruth was born in Basel, Switzerland, on ...

A former scientist at Google's DeepMind who co-developed the AlphaFold2 protein prediction platform, Dr Simon Kohl, has launched his own venture applying artificial intelligence to drug discovery.