It was the greatest experiment ever conducted on U.S. soil. Discover 20 little-known facts about the Manhattan project.

One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Historical Society is releasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

Mike Michnovicz plays the accordion in his dorm. He was active in three popular musical groups during his time in Los Alamos.

Perhaps the best known of the women scientists of the Manhattan Project was Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who fled the Nazis in the early 1930s with her husband, chemist Joseph Mayer. She worked for the ...

In never-before-seen photographs, explore the secret U.S. facility and home to the Manhattan Project scientists who developed the first nuclear weapon Photographs by Minesh Bacrania By Jennie ...

Teller was among the first scientists recruited to work on the Manhattan Project that was working to develop such a bomb. It was Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi who first got Teller thinking ...

He waltzed into the Manhattan Project and solved a problem that had frustrated other top scientists for months. His work on game theory underpins the modern world, from defence strategies to ...