Oppenheimer's famous quote 'I am become Death' isn't really his. The ominous words come from Hindu scripture.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.

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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

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Nobel Prize winners Ernest Lawrence Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Isaac Rabi stand together talking in the late 1930s
Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.

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A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report

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Methane well pumpjacks.
Methane well pumpjacks. A methane well leak occurred over 6 months in Kazakhstan in 2023.

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'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims

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An exhibit of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia.

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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.

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Tom Conti as Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."

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The millionaire chasing immortality responds to people's criticism that he must be miserable

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Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old biotech founder, hopes to rewind the clock of his body a few decades through a program he started, called Project Blueprint.

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Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Google's methane map shows oil and gas infrastructure shaded in yellow, red, and blue.
Google expects to make its methane map public later this year.

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US lawmakers were just briefed on intel that Russia is trying to put a nuclear weapon in space: reports

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This pool photograph distributed by Russian state-owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin talking with young scientists during a visit to the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia in Korolyov, outside Moscow, on October 26, 2023.
This pool photograph distributed by Russian state-owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin talking with young scientists during a visit to the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC)

SpaceX files to relocate to Texas after Elon Musk's spat with Delaware over pay package

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The man who was almost NASA's first Black astronaut in the 1960s explains why he never made it to space

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Ed Dwight wears a flight suit and sits in the cockpit of an F-104.
Ed Dwight in the cockpit of an F-104 circa the 1960s.

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