The Energy Department says it is closing in on mass producing warhead-ready plutonium pits—the explosive core of nuclear ...

An undated photo capturing the Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos National Labratory, with the Rio Grande valley and the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the background. (Photo courtesy of Los Alamos ...

North Korea said Sunday it has ordered its artillery corps near the border with South Korea to fully prepare to shoot after the North threatened a "horrible disaster" over the alle... Senior diplomats ...

On 1984, Kathryn Sullivan, flying into orbit aboard the space shuttle Challenger, became the first American woman to walk in ...

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for ...

Slashing federal disaster relief, privatizing public education, politicizing federal agencies, gutting intelligence bureaus, ...

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Europium glows red under UV light, so it’s used in making Euro banknotes to prevent forgeries, added to low-energy light bulbs so that the white color appears warmer ... highly reflective metal.

After a summer closed for track renovations, America's daily cross-border train between New York and Montreal is up and running again. Along the way, the Daily Mail's Annabelle Thorpe marvels at ...