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If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas)

发表于 2024-01-23 atomic appreciation random

How did a husband-and-wife vacation end up saving a city from the atomic bomb while destroying another? And how did a century-old murder of one family bring ano…

A Heroic Effort to Measure Helium

发表于 2021-02-06 heroic helium adchoices

After an intense game of cat and mouse with different particles, atomic physicists have measured the radius of the helium nucleus five times more precisely than…

Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History

发表于 2023-07-22 oppenheimer adchoices atomic

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb. …