On May 24, 1957, Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English snapped a striking image of a model wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who was quickly immortalized as "Miss Atomic Bomb." This ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The explosion in the desert equaled 20,000 tons of TNT. Radioactive fallout ...

Dalton's own notebook shows that his atomic theory preceded his work on marsh gas, and his notes for a lecture delivered in 1810 give a history of his ideas which agrees with all the facts.1 ...

Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet – through the marks we've left on nature.

Further developments to the atomic model Bohr and energy levels Even though Rutherford had proven the existence of the nucleus , scientists were unsure how electrons fitted into this new model.

This article was originally published with the title “A Completed Chapter in the History of the Atomic Theory” in SA Supplements Vol. 42 No. 1080supp (September 1896), p. 17269 doi:10.1038 ...

THE recent correspondence on the subject of the identity of the inventor of the atomic theory has led me to think that the following quotation from one of the foremost English scholars of the ...

Journalist Graff (When the Sea Came Alive) delivers a magisterial oral history of the atomic bomb. The book opens by tracing eni ...

Thousands of people died from the atomic bomb, but the action also ended World War II. Here is everything you need to know about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb.

Gradually, starburst shapes joined the interpretations of a model of an atom—possibly as a representation of an atomic reaction.