On 11 March 2011, Japan was shaken by what became known as the Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake. It was followed by a tsunami which resulted in waves reaching heights of more than 10 meters. The ...

Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot ...

He was on his way back to the office when the first atomic bomb ever used in combat, dubbed "Little Boy," detonated just two miles away. While 160,000 people died from the bomb, he survived but ...

This handbook illustrates the wide variety of operating modes available on Bruker AFMs, going well beyond the standard high‑resolution topographic imaging capabilities of AFM. The modes are broken ...

The "A" stands for "atomic," and was quickly adopted as a name for the earliest nuclear weapons. The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy ...

The Civil Defence Exercise and rehearsal in Tamil Nadu will be conducted at the Madras Atomic Power Station, Kalpakkam in Chengalpattu District and in Chennai Port Trust at 1600 hours today.

Using cryo-electron microscopy, they then captured atomic-level snapshots of the receptor bound to two synthetic sweeteners: sucralose (sold commercially as Splenda) and aspartame (found in ...

NIST scientists Greg Hoth (left) and Vladislav Gerginov work on NIST-F4, NIST’s new cesium fountain clock, one of the most precise atomic clocks ever created. (Image credit: R. Eskalis/NIST) But ...

State Key Laboratory of Urban-rural Water Resources and Environment, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China Center for Innovative Research ...

The tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries have sparked a global debate around atomic weapons and its usage. In the last few weeks, there has been a series of irresponsible statements by ...

Saplings from a persimmon tree that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima were planted in an event at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday. U.N. employees planned the event ...

Two saplings grown from seeds that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima have been planted at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in the hope of realizing a world without nuclear ...