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Einstein's 1939 letter, warning of atomic weapons, just sold at auction for $3.9 million
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought a copy of Einstein's infamous 1939 letter to Roosevelt in 20…
Jenny McGrath
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Warren Buffett rings the alarm on AI, comparing it to the atomic bomb and warning it will supercharge fraud
Warren Buffett has raised the alarm on AI, warning it threatens to supercharge fraud by making scam…
Theron Mohamed
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Warren Buffett warned AI is like the atomic bomb, but this expert thinks he's being way too gloomy
Warren Buffett warned humanity has let the genie out of the bottle again with AI. Nuclear power may…
Theron Mohamed
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Hydrogen bombs vs. atomic bombs: Breaking down the differences in how they work, how much they cost, and which is most powerful
Hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs both operate via nuclear physics, but one is 1,000 times more power…
Adam Barnes
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This new technology for nuclear power could help fuel the AI revolution
Swiss startup Transmutex has pioneered a way to both reduce nuclear waste and increase energy outpu…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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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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Bill Gates says nuclear power has 'impressive' bipartisan support
Bill Gates and other tech leaders are promoting nuclear energy as a clean solution to the country's…
Katie Balevic,Lakshmi Varanasi
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the men who oversaw the detonation of the world's first atomic bom…
Amanda Macias,Joshua Zitser
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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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The Google engineer who was fired after claiming the company's chatbot is sentient says AI is the 'most powerful' tech invented 'since the atomic bomb'
Blake Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot ha…
Cheryl Teh
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How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII
Atomic bombs work via nuclear fission. When enough radioactive material undergoes fission, it trigg…
Adam Barnes
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Scientists are designing a supercollider so powerful it could push the boundaries of modern physics
CERN is designing the largest and most powerful supercollider of all time. It could solve some of t…
Ellyn Lapointe
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UN atomic agency says it is investigating 'extremely serious' claim that a missile flew directly over a Ukrainian power plant
Had the missile gone astray, it may have caused a massive nuclear accident, the International Atomi…
Marianne Guenot
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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to d…
Jenny McGrath
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Researchers used the world's most powerful MRI to get brain scans that are 10 times as detailed as a hospital MRI — take a look
Researchers unveiled images of the brain from the world's most powerful MRI, which could lead to br…
Jenny McGrath
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5 ways reading 'Atomic Habits' changed how I live and work for the better
"Atomic Habits" taught a copywriter to use "temptation bundling" to make dreaded tasks more enjoyab…
Robin Madell
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Christopher Nolan says the ending of 'Oppenheimer' drives home the idea that we now live in a world created by the father of the atomic bomb and 'we always will'
The epic three-hour movie on J. Robert Oppenheimer concludes with an eerie foretelling of a world c…