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As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

It's an unintended consequence of the Atomic Age. Dan Smith shows how nuclear testing inadvertently affected steel production ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Many kiddos were dazzled by an explosion presented at DHDC as part of their New Year's Eve festivities — and the kickoff to ...

Winter means a lot of indoor time, and I've learned that science experiments are a lifesaver on those long, cold days. The best part? You don't need anything fancy. Baking soda, vinegar, food ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...