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 ...

The letter titled “On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project” was originally in German. It was sent to a Japanese ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not depressing.

She discussed new work that harkens back to a century-old thought experiment first proposed by the Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard. Picture a box with a vertical divider that can slide sideways ...

Roosevelt sets up committe In 1939, scientists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard persuaded President Franklin Roosevelt to set up the new advistory committee on Uranium to study the potential role ...