Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough experimental therapy that could one day protect humans from the deadly effects of nuclear radiation exposure. The study, published in the journal Cell ...

Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. The scientific literature about the impacts of nuclear war on the environment has been fraught with many uncertainties ...

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.