1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, continues in the village of Prokhorovka, between Russian and German forces. The Soviets will win ...

Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

Here’s a curated list combining the most significant books that accurately predicted elements of our future. These works, through fiction and foresight, have highlighted major technological, societal, ...

The typed letter, which the Jewish physicist corrected and signed by hand, addresses “my participation in the atom bomb project.”The post Bonhmas expects Einstein letter about atom bomb to fetch ...

They included such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, John von Neumann, Hans Bethe and Stanisław Ulam among many others.

Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution quickened. Within months some 400,000 Jews from the countryside had been ...

He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society. He is the author of "Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of ...