Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the sun through every ...

Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell restor ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever created.

While up to his eyeballs in Avatar sequels, James Cameron made a deathbed promise to Tsutomu Yamaguchi (one of the survivors ...

IT was the day that changed the world for ever – when the first atomic bomb brought ­Armageddon to Japan.  Oscar-winning 2023 ...

On a yellowed piece of newsprint, three young women are frozen mid-laughter with arms linked and faces aglow as they wade through a sea of confetti on Broadway in New York City. It was May 8, 1945 — ...

The U.S. all-star football game in the atomic ruins of Nagasaki--and why it matters today The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as "the forgotten bomb." Less ...

It was the night of August 9, 1945, merely hours after the US had unleashed the second atomic bomb on top of the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Dense fog blanketed the landscape, shrouding the ...

Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II and the Japanese aggression in Asia that lasted nearly half a century.

"I showed you terrible pictures and drawings tonight. I hope you don't have nightmares tonight," Otake said. "This is what happened in Hiroshima 60 years ago." "The second atomic bomb was dropped on ...