A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

The paper argues that the third principle of thermodynamics follows from the second principle, rather than being a separate or independent concept. Professor José María Martín-Olalla of the University ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is proud to welcome artificial intelligence expert Melanie Mitchell to its Science and ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

Herbert Lin is a former Bulletin Science and Security Board member and senior research scholar and research fellow at Stanford University. His research interests relate to the intersection of emerging ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...