Christopher Nolan is Ready to Bring His Moviemaking Skills to Horror

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Throughout his decades-long career, Christopher Nolan has bounced between varoius genres like thrillers, space operas, and

These Were the Most-Read Wikipedia Pages of 2023 (and We're Not Surprised)

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If you want to know what average online folks are trying to learn about, then perhaps the total view counts on Wikipedia might offer us a glimpse into what most people want to learn about. If the top 25 most-viewed Wikipedia articles of 2023 are anything to go by, then people really cared about the rise of AI and the…

How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists

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A recreation of the experiment shows how Louis Slotin used a screwdriver to hold open metallic half-spheres around the "demon core."

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Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, spent her career fighting for gender equality in science

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Chien-Shiung Wu in a laboratory at Columbia University in 1958.

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What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project

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The Los Alamos Ranch School buildings in 1942, which became part of the Los Alamos Project Y site.

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'Oppenheimer' leaves out New Mexicans exposed to radiation from the Manhattan Project, despite local efforts to contact filmmakers

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The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico.

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The beauty and terror of Oppenheimer's first-ever nuclear test explosion, in the words of those who witnessed it

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The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment

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Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb.

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The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored

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Maria Goeppert Mayer worked on the Manhattan Project and later won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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How Christopher Nolan recreated the Trinity Test atomic bomb explosion in 'Oppenheimer' without any CGI

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A colorized photo of the mushroom cloud produced by the Trinity nuclear test as it rises over the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

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