Johna Simpson News Today

CIVIL WAR SPEAKER and author, John A. Simpson, will be at the University of Pittsburgh Bradford’s Mukiyama Room at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 to read from his recently published book,

The story, the detailed personal accounts and the photos in the recently published book, “All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War,” by John

SMETHPORT — A collection of handwritten letters and other documents, dating back to 1856, were discovered in an attic of a home in Washington state have made their way to

This article was the lead story in the December 1991 issue of the Bulletin magazine. With this issue, the Bulletin reset the Doomsday Clock.

John B Goodenough, professor at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) who is known around the world for the development of the lithium-ion battery, died on Sunday at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, at the age of 100.

John B. Goodenough, professor at The University of Texas at Austin who is known around the world for the development of the lithium-ion battery, died

100 years ago

At first, almost no one believed his findings on gigantic eruptions from the sun. Today, a NASA mission to fly through its outer atmosphere is named after him.

What are the origins of the Doomsday Clock? The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It warns how many metaphorical “minutes to midnight” humanity has left. Set every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, it is intended to warn the public and inspire action. When it was created in 1947, the placement of the Doomsday Clock was based on the threat posed by nuclear weapons, which Bulletin s...