One of the IAEA’s most popular articles in 2025 was the explainer on What is Nuclear Energy? Readers learned about how splitting atoms generates clean power without emitting gre ...

Trump used U.S. deaths from fentanyl to justify the drug's new designation, estimating that up to 300,000 people die annually from the drug; that number is exaggerated. In the 12 months through April ...

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He peered into the darkest corners of humanity and remained an optimist. By Jonathan Mahler ...

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...

A pretty scary map website allows you to really see what would happen if a nuclear blast was to take place near you. In ...

The Trump administration's elevation of Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

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HIROSHIMA, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing words at a three-day international meeting about peace, when President ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...