This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

When Pat Fitch started working on artificial intelligence in the 1990s, he concluded it was a waste of time. It now takes up a big chunk of his day. About two years ago, Fitch, the deputy director of ...

A Los Alamos home was featured in one of the biggest summer blockbusters. Now, a group is trying to open it up for the public ...

Two Los Alamos Laboratory scientists discovered Arthur Ruhlig’s major contributions to fusion physics, and they did so completely by accident.

Unlike the other major Manhattan Project facilities, CEW & HEW, Nichols did not have overall administration of the Los Alamos Laboratory or the secret city.

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Sam Linford and Ali Livesay helped create a new Bradbury Science Museum exhibit, which officially opens June 25 and ...

Originally published: Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Los Alamos Project. Los Alamos : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, 1961.

The 158 pipes being exhumed and sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant were buried in 1986 and contained cemented radioactive liquid waste.