atomic

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The show examines the environmental and human cost of the atomic era through an artistic lens, tracing present day nuclear risk back to its Cold War roots.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

They paired these measurements with detailed ab initio simulations that tracked thousands of possible atomic pathways and calculated how likely decay was along each one.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

He has five close childhood friends he affectionately calls knuckleheads, although a couple are doctors and one is an atomic physicist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The United States ended World War II by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, the only use of nuclear weapons in history.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee