This was, of course, the Manhattan Project, a top-secret, US-led World War II research effort that led directly to the development of the first atomic bomb. Ultimately used twice to help end the ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a ...

A clandestine operation—tucked away on an upper floor of Rockefeller Center—was vital to Britain’s struggle for survival in ...

Those bombs were developed as part of the Manhattan Project atomic weapons program. The Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which preserves key sites and documents the bombs' development ...

Paul Stephens, a high school student in Ithaca, New York, is generally unmotivated academically despite being a science geek, his interest, as per his age, mostly in those science items that have ...

The Los Alamos History Museum is showcasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the Manhattan Project. Michnovicz captured some of the most iconic images of the top-secret ...

(WIBW) - A portion of US-24 highway near Manhattan is scheduled to close next week as crews begin a roundabout project in the area, officials said Thursday morning. The project is scheduled to ...

And sure, our first thought when we saw this story was “This bold new partnership could be, for the Ghostwriting Sciences, what the Manhattan Project was for nuclear physics.” But this is a ...