A nuclear explosion mushrooms in the sky, casting orange light. Nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and early 1960s left the first obvious and indelible marks of "overwhelming" human activity on ...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United States today. According to a study published on ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.

A radioactive wasp’s nest has been found by workers at a site in South Carolina formerly used to make key parts for nuclear bombs. The discovery was made by workers who routinely check the radiation ...

Four radioactive wasp nests are causing a buzz at a South Carolina facility tied to nuclear weapons. Thankfully, there’s no threat to the public (and the chances of this turning into a superhero ...

Nuclear testing in the 1950s marked sediments at the bottom of a lake in Canada to such an extent that scientists are calling for it to become the symbol of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.