On July 16, 1945, an enormous column of smoke rose up to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) high above a remote part of the Jornada Del Muerto Desert, New Mexico, preceded by a tremendous flash that lit up ...

My father, Donald Schover, was an electronics research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab)—the same lab where Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first ...

The Academy of Sciences - St. Louis has inducted 26 new fellows including a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and the head of the Siteman Cancer Institute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 16, 1945, an enormous column of smoke rose up to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) high above a remote part of the Jornada Del ...