If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...

Widely known as “Miss Atomic Bomb,” she had long been identified as a model named Lee Merlin — but, as it turns out, this was only a stage name. As researcher and historian Robert Friedrichs revealed, ...

Depending on the size of the goiter, your healthcare provider may recommend taking levothyroxine (thyroid hormone replacement medication) as well as increasing your iodine intake. However, older ...

The museum plans to display those photos in 2025 along with a model of the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, known as Little Boy, according to Jeremy Kinney, associate director of research and ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...

An endless winter, described by researchers as a “nuclear winter”, deadly famine, black night and the extinction of light.., ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is considering opening France's "nuclear umbrella" to the rest of Europe - amid uncertainties over US security guarantees. Ahead of EU leaders meeting ...

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Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...

South African power utility Eskom resumed scheduled power cuts on Friday and said they would last across the weekend, after outages at the country's nuclear power station and one of its mammoth ...