The two sides in Virginia’s uranium-mining debate differ on the value of a report Gov. Bob McDonnell released Friday. The $1.2 million, 104-page report of McDonnell’s uranium-mining study group lays ...

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer tells the story of the titular physicist who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Under Oppenheimer's leadership, a small group of 20th ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years, ...

South T Bar Ranch is a cautionary tale for Coloradans. Beware the split estate. Colorado law allows for surface rights of land to be split from sub-surface mineral rights. Most commonly, conflict ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's opposition Labor Party, riding high in opinion polls ahead of a general election this year, was beset by an internal rift on Sunday over uranium mining. The Western ...

How close were the Nazis getting to making an atom bomb? This frightening question spurred U.S. bombmakers throughout the war. It also helped still their consciences. The Germans never came very close ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.