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Trump's allies are working on a plan to create 'Manhattan Projects' for AI military tech: report
According to The Washington Post, several people close to the former president are writing up an AI…
Hannah Abraham
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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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The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored
Women serving in key roles like explosion techs, librarians, and hematologists were essential to th…
Katie Hawkinson ,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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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 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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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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'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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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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Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb
Einstein didn't join scientists like J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Manhattan Project. US officials w…
Sonam Sheth
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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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Sam Altman compared the scale of OpenAI with the Manhattan Project and quoted Oppenheimer in 2019, report says
OpenAI's CEO reportedly told a New York Times reporter that the World War II nuclear weapons progra…
Pete Syme
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Ukrainian tanks are being wiped out by Russian minefields. The country needs its own 'Manhattan Project' to figure out how to clear them, a retired general told the NYT.
Russian minefields have put a wrench in Ukraine's counteroffensive strategy, forcing troops to aban…
Hannah Getahun
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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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Scientists describe setting off the world's first nuclear bomb 75 years ago: No one 'even raised the possibility that what we were doing might be morally wrong'
The Trinity nuclear explosion, part of the Manhattan Project, marked the development of the deadlie…
Aria Bendix
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9 years before 'Oppenheimer,' Cillian Murphy could have played the father of the atomic bomb in another project
For the short-lived TV series "Manhattan," Murphy was considered for the Oppenheimer role, as well …
Jason Guerrasio
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Meet Jeff McConney, Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's right-hand man who has been quietly testifying in the Manhattan DA's criminal inquiry
McConney, the Trump Organization's controller, is Allen Weisselberg's second-in-command and has wor…
Jacob Shamsian
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A plan for a $3 billion casino in New York's Manhattan includes a massive crypto-trading floor and a flying-car landing pad
UE Resorts and Jason Ader, formerly on Las Vegas Sands' board, plan to submit a proposal for the $3…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Manhattan DA's probe ramps up, placing new scrutiny on Trump's debt-ridden New York properties
Trump Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, 40 Wall Street, and Trump Plaza have missed lende…
Joshua Zitser
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Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is hosting exclusive invite-only dinner parties at her Manhattan apartment while on house arrest
Convicted scammer Anna Sorokin, of "Inventing Anna" fame, is inviting influencers and celebrity fri…