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VLCC tanker Amoco Cadiz oil spill/Collection of Doug Helton/NOAA/NOS/ORR/Flickr Science Staff Writer Adrian Cho joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about plans for the next generation of gravitational wave detectors—including one with 40-kilometer arms. The proposed detectors will be up to 10 times more sensitive than current models and could capture all black hole mergers in the observable universe. Sarah also talks with Pavani Cherukupally, a researcher at Imperial College London and the University of Toronto, about her Science Advances paper on cleaning up oil spil...

Share From 1966 to 1974, France conducted 41 above-ground test of nuclear weapons on the Moruroa atoll, including this one of a 0.9-megaton giant in the Licorne test on 3 July 1970. CTBTO/SCIENCE SOURCE France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study finds Mar. 11, 2021 , 2:30 PM From 1966 to 1974, France blew up 41 nuclear weapons in above-ground tests in French Polynesia, the collection of 118 islands and atolls that is part of France. The French government has long contended that the testing was done safely. But a new analysis of hundreds of documents ...

Share Europe’s proposed Einstein Telescope, an early design of which is shown here in an artist’s conception (not to scale), would comprise six detectors in a triangular arrangement of tunnels. ET Conceptual Design Team Giant gravitational wave detectors could hear murmurs from across universe Mar. 10, 2021 , 12:35 PM Just 5 years ago, physicists opened a new window on the universe when they first detected gravitational waves, ripples in space itself set off when massive black holes or neutron stars collide. Even as discoveries pour in, researchers are already planning bigger, mor...

Road map to U.S. fusion power plant comes into clearer focus—sort of Feb. 19, 2021 , 5:00 PM Plans to build a prototype fusion power plant in the United States have come into tighter focus, as a new report lays out a rough timeline for building the multibillon-dollar plant and a strategy for developing its design. The United States should strive to start construction of the pilot by 2035 and to have it running by 2040, according to a report released this week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). To meet that tight schedule, the report calls for the U.S. ...

Share Chien-Shiung Wu was born in Liuhe, China, a town north of Shanghai, and emigrated to the United States in 1936. Robert W. Kelley/LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize Feb. 5, 2021 , 6:20 PM A Chinese-American physicist whose name many people have never heard will soon share a rare honor typically bestowed on the field’s mononymous greats: Einstein, Fermi, Feynman. On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will issue a stamp commemora...