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March Mavericks: 6 Wonderful Books That Will Tune Up Your Life
The cool and colourful Indian spring is nearly over and the hot summer days will be here soon. Stil…
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The Fermi Paradox asks why we haven't found any evidence of aliens. Here are 13 potential answers to that question.
Scientists have offered myriad potential answers to the question, including that aliens are hiberna…
Aylin Woodward
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Elon Musk says he 'would know' if there are aliens out there with all the Starlink satellites he has orbiting Earth
Musk's rocket company, SpaceX operates a satellite internet system called Starlink. Musk says he ho…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Here's the science refresher you need before diving into Netflix's '3 Body Problem'
Netflix's "3 Body Problem" makes a lot of physics references. Two experts help explain some scienti…
Jenny McGrath
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Manhattan Project scientists hired Columbia University's football team to lug uranium into the physics lab on campus in the 1940s
During the development of the atomic bomb, physicists at Columbia University needed help moving ura…
Talia Lakritz
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Elon Musk says his new AI venture could help us understand why we haven't met any aliens yet
Elon Musk wants his new company xAI to create an artificial general intelligence that would solve t…
Hannah Getahun
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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations
Lise Meitner discovered how the process of nuclear fission works but she never won a Nobel Prize an…
Adam Barnes
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'Oppenheimer' leaves out New Mexicans exposed to radiation from the Manhattan Project, despite local efforts to contact filmmakers
The Manhattan Project displaced some New Mexicans, employed others, and probably irradiated thousan…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny McGrath
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The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie 'Oppenheimer'
At least 19 Black scientists and technicians worked on the creation of US nuclear bombs, but some p…
Yoonji Han
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What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project
One of the Manhattan Project sites, Los Alamos, required a whole new city to be built for scientist…
Jenny McGrath
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What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, …
Jenny McGrath
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How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists
WWII-era experiments on a hunk of plutonium known as the "demon core" left two Manhattan Project ph…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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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
In the 1950s, Wu devised a series of experiments that disproved the law of conservation of parity. …
Yoonji Han
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs
Hydrogen bombs, considered nuclear weapons, work using a combination of nuclear fission and fusion.…
Adam Barnes
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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is historically accurate in many ways, but it's still a work of f…
Jenny McGrath
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Our galaxy could have at least 36 intelligent alien civilizations, researchers say. It may take thousands of years to find them.
Extraterrestrial civilizations could tell us whether human life will last millions of years, or jus…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Over 600 cubes of Nazi uranium made their way to the US after the war. Two scientists are trying to figure out where they are now.
Only 14 of the 1,000-plus cubes from Nazi Germany's nuclear program remain. Two researchers have sp…
Marianne Guenot
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Alien civilizations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already, new study says. We just haven't seen them recently.
Researchers have sought to answer the Fermi Paradox in a number of ways - studies have investigated…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This planetary scientist has a new idea for why we haven't heard from aliens yet
Alan Stern: What my paper suggests is that it may be related to a fairly recent discovery of planet…