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, ...

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 ...

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

The historic Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge now hosts a new uranium enrichment facility aimed at powering AI data centers, as the US works to reduce dependence on imported nuclear fuel.

Over 80 years after scientists of the ‘Manhattan Project’ harnessed the power of the atom to end World War II, the top-secret worksite has a new mission to help dominate AI before China does.

Richard Garwin, who has died aged 97, was an American nuclear scientist who designed the world’s first hydrogen bomb and went on to become a presidential adviser on arms control, while helping ...

Over 80 years after scientists of the ‘Manhattan Project’ harnessed the power of the atom to end World War II, the top-secret worksite has a new mission to help dominate AI before China does. The ...

After spending nearly $300 million to support Trump’s election, Elon Musk announced his departure from his role as a ‘special government adviser’ to the ...

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

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.

Although it has been compared to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, some sources noted that a project of the Golden Dome’s size and scope has never been built before.“The Manhattan ...