The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

The Atomic Age is Perpetually About to Dawn. Republicans and Democrats Aren’t the Ones Holding it Back. Nuclear power is a political winner — but not a money saver. Just ask Tim Echols.

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

After a 25-year investigation, historian Robert Friedrichs identified Anna Lee Mahoney as Miss Atomic Bomb.

George Koval: Atomic Spy Unmasked Iowa-born and army-trained, how did George Koval manage to steal a critical U.S. atom bomb secret for the Soviets?

Cite this article A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory: a Contribution to Chemical History, &c La Théorie Atomique et la Théorie Dualistique. Transformation des formules.

“The general theory of relativity is one man’s idea of what the universe ought to be like,” says Einstein scholar Arthur I. Miller of UniversityCollege, London.

Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher, developed atomic theory and taught that true happiness comes from wisdom, not wealth or status.

Painting of Leucippus, the ancient Greek philosopher credited with a theory about creation, which some compare to modern Big Bang concepts. Credit: Luca Giordano, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain ...

Why saying who was first to split the atom is almost as hard as mastering atomic theory.

The 1922 Nobel Lecture marked Bohr’s official recognition as one of the leading figures in atomic theory. His influence extended beyond the world of physics.

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, researchers mapped the clustering of nearly 6 million galaxies spanning 11 billion years, confirming predictions made by Einstein’s theory of general ...