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For the Love of God, Stop Making Inscrutable Doomsday Clocks

Tue, 10/15/2024 - 14:00

Doomsday Clock

Artificial Intelligence, AI, Elon Musk, Manhattan Project, neom, Nuclear

Christopher Nolan is Ready to Bring His Moviemaking Skills to Horror

Sun, 02/18/2024 - 10:30

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

christopher nolan, entertainment culture, Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, dev patel

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

Tue, 12/05/2023 - 07:00

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…

Manhattan Project, the 2023 cricket world cup, 2023 cricket world cup, lisa marie presley, Barbenheimer, christiano ronaldo, Taylor Swift

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

Sat, 07/29/2023 - 08:10

image of Slotin using a screwdriver to hold open the spheres around the demon core — A recreation of the experiment shows how Louis Slotin used a screwdriver to hold open metallic half-spheres around the "demon core."
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Military & Defense, Science, Speed desk, Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer, Atomic Bomb, World War II

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

Wed, 07/26/2023 - 09:27

Chien-Shiung Wu — Chien-Shiung Wu in a laboratory at Columbia University in 1958.
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Science, Voices of Color, Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer, Asian Americans, AAPI

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

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 18:04

Buildings around Ashley Pond at the Los Alamos Project Y Site in 1942 — The Los Alamos Ranch School buildings in 1942, which became part of the Los Alamos Project Y site.
National Security Research Center

Science, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic bombs

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

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 11:21

Trinity Test — The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico.
AP Photo/File

Science, News, Oppenhemier, New Mexico, Nuclear Fallout, Los Alamos, christopher nolan

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

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 09:06

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

Military & Defense, News, Oppenheimer, Nuclear Weapons, Manhattan Project, World War II, News UK

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

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 07:03

gadget bomb — Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb.
US Department of Energy

Military & Defense, Atomic Bomb, Albert Einstein, Manhattan Project

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

Sat, 07/22/2023 - 08:19

A portrait of Maria Goeppert Mayer standing in front of a chalkboard. — Maria Goeppert Mayer worked on the Manhattan Project and later won the Nobel Prize in physics.
Bettmann/Getty Images

Science, Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, New Mexico

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