New research from Penn State shows how nuclear war could slash global corn yields by up to 87%, threatening food security.

A recent study modeled the catastrophic impact of a nuclear winter on global corn production. A nuclear winter could occur after a large-scale nuclear war. If this kind of war ever occurs, then the ...

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which ...

With nuclear war making it to geopolitical debates, a major new study warns that even a limited atomic conflict could trigger ...

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly ...

According to the research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, children who lived near Coldwater Creek— a tributary of the Missouri River north of St. Louis— during the 1940s, 1950s and ...

Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through ...

Young girls could be up to 10 times more vulnerable to nuclear radiation than other members of society, with girls aged up to five twice as likely to develop cancer as boys of the same age.

Study: Increased – but still low – levels of water radiation around the San Onofre nuclear plant Samples collected by Surfrider, an environmental group, were evaluated by Woods Hole ...

On March 5 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Nichols and Olson will be presenting at the Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The session, ...

The study also reanalyzed fallout from all 93 aboveground U.S. atomic tests in Nevada and created a map depicting composite deposition of radioactive material across the contiguous U.S.