On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic ...

The printing press, light bulb, internal combustion engine and computer moved the world into a mostly better future.

The claim that Britain’s nuclear weapons makes us safe – the myth that this government like every other before it continues ...

Eight decades after the Hiroshima atomic bombing, the event remains a defining moment. The bombings accelerated World War ...

On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the ...

Rapidly cooled Two microscope images of the metal sphere that contained the new alloy. (Courtesy: University of Florence/CC BY-SA 4.0) One of my favourite books about physics is The Second Kind of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...