A fast-growing and unpredictable wildfire bore down Monday on the northern New Mexico town of Los Alamos and its sprawling nuclear laboratory, prompting authorities to order the area evacuated.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) published surprising findings about how native plants respond to drought.

Two New Mexico projects were named among 29 semifinalists in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s $160 million Regional ...

FILE - Charles McMillan, center, director of Los Alamos Laboratory, talks to reporters during a news conference in Los Alamos, N.M., June 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) ...

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, scientists and engineers refer to their planned new $6 billion nuclear lab by its clunky acronym, CMRR, short for Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility.

A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste Tuesday as ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died from injuries after an automobile crash in New ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died from injuries after an automobile crash in New Mexico ...