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Louison Mazeaud is an associate researcher in the weapons of mass destruction program at United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) where she focuses on the national implementation of ...

Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

News of Donald Trump’s victory sent the rial, Iran’s currency, to an all-time low. The party may be over for the Iranian ...

His doomsday is the year 2026. In the November 4 Science, Professor von Foerster calculates by elaborate mathematics what will happen if the human species avoids large-scale disaster (e.g ...

Bobby Allison, founder of racing's "Alabama Gang" and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, died Saturday. He was 86. NASCAR released a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Thursday that the “space for negotiation and diplomacy … is getting smaller” over Iran’s ...

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