At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

Scientists working on the revolutionary 'R' programming language invented at the University of Auckland have won a top award intended to be a Nobel Prize for statisticians. The Rousseeuw Prize in ...

Nature has revealed the winners of its 2026 Scientist at Work photo competition, a snapshot of what research careers really look like day to day. Selected from more than 220 entries worldwide, the ...