Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

Our account of the strong nuclear force is full of imaginative terms. Six flavors of quarks have color charges of red, green and blue, which dictate how they bind to form particles like protons and ...

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Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is pursuing perhaps the most ambitious development of nuclear power in America, setting a new goal to build ...