Hidden deep in the archives of the Library of Congress lies a virtually unseen film from a secret Cold War test that remains one of the most chilling relics of the nuclear age. The footage begins with ...

The pendulum in the writing and teaching of New Zealand history appears to have swung back from what has been called the binary view of a morality play. This depicted a struggle between good and evil, ...

As with the human brain, the underlying architecture of artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning remains largely an unexplained mystery. However, a team of researchers has now identified a ...

Weighing 23 000 tonnes and standing at nearly 30 metres tall, ITER will be an impressive sight to behold. This nuclear fusion reactor will sit at the heart of a 180-hectare site, together with ...

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EUROPE — Every clock in your house probably tells a slightly different time. Now picture those clocks as the most precise instruments humanity has ever built, so accurate that they wouldn’t lose or ...

I read with great interest the article by Katherine Bourzac “Divining the Mysteries of the Atomic Nucleus” in the Jan. 29, 2024, issue of C&EN (page 30). Curious readers might like to know that an ...

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies required. The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail how the a ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...