For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

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Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air. Lost Science Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams ...

Researchers uncover how the surface structure of silver iodide at the atomic scale triggers ice formation in clouds, improving understanding of artificial rain and snow. (Nanowerk News) No one can ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known as cloud seeding, typically involves dispersing small silver iodide ...

Pope Francis greatly limited the use of the traditional Latin Mass, believing it sowed division. Traditionalist Catholics are hoping Pope Leo charts a different path. By Elisabetta Povoledo and Ruth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie shared the Nobel Prize in 1935. Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images The adage goes “like mother ...

After Every Time I Die broke up, most of the band formed Better Lovers (who released a new single this week) and singer Keith Buckley formed Many Eyes (who released a new EP last week), while ...

It’s that time of year again, skiers, when our favorite brands are quietly dropping their fresh lineups for the upcoming ski season. Last week, 4FRNT released a new ski called the Sinister, and this ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

The Leo Strauss Letter That Previewed a Modern-Day Divide The All-American Game The moral indictment of the bombings works from a grossly upside-down portrait of the number and identity of the war’s ...