The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

The allegations were leveled by U.S. officials late last week. Arms control experts worry that norms against nuclear testing ...

The US has accused China of secret nuclear testing as the world slips into its first treaty-free era in decades.

The science pros at TKOR explore whether explosive experiments will happen again.

Two women are dead after an explosion and fire at a home in Hermantown, Minn., on Jan. 31. Hermantown Police Chief Jim Crace identified those killed as Gayle Nelsen, 89, and Joan Wisneski, 88. No one ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...

BOONE, Colorado — An investigation is underway after an explosion at a home in rural Pueblo County killed two people. On Thursday, the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office reported that multiple agencies ...

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In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

The Arizona Supreme Court and Court of Appeals were evacuated on Monday. A package that officials said contained two vials of a "homemade explosive substance" was discovered near the Arizona State ...

DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Eight people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, Syrian state news agency SANA said. An ...