Eighty years after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico, we're still feeling the political and scientific ...

The model predicts how fuel droplets and gas particles behave in detonation waves. These waves occur in rocket engines, ...

An ambitious project to weaken or divert hurricanes generated decades of suspicion and disagreement. What did we learn – and ...

Garwin (S.M. ’48, Ph.D. ’49) worked with Enrico Fermi at the University before designing the first hydrogen bomb in Los ...

Richard Garwin, Chicago physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and worked to see it wasn't used, dead at 97 He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president ...

Edward Teller, the “father of the H-bomb”, ... Weapons company Lockheed Martin, which already makes anti-missile weapons, has likened the Golden Dome to the Manhattan Project ...

Ross Douthat: Is Silicon Valley recklessly ambitious? What should we fear more: Armageddon or stagnation? Why is one of the world’s most successful investors worrying about the Antichrist?

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his opposition to war has been put up for auction, with a guide price of between ...

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful.I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a jingoistic call on social media for a “new Manhattan Project,” this time to win the so-called race for artificial intelligence supremacy.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Construction is scheduled to begin in early June on a major thoroughfare in Manhattan. Officials said the first phase of Anderson Avenue water, street, and stormwater ...