Oppenheimer is widely regarded as the father of the atomic bomb, but he didn’t do it alone. Scores of scientists were exiled ...

In India, it's been a hit too but some have protested against a scene depicting the scientist reading the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's holiest books, after sex. Oppenheimer learnt the ancient ...

The Nazi effect Until the 1930s, Oppenheimer was resolutely indifferent to politics. Though he studied Sanskrit along with science and read classics, novels and poetry, he took no interest in ...

which would become Oppenheimer's field of study. The younger scientist later called Einstein "completely cuckoo." It wasn't until the last decade of Einstein's life, after the bombs had already ...

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

It's a problem for now." Originally trained in astrophysics, Oppenheimer pivoted to climate science after stumbling across an MIT alumni magazine article in the late 1960s, detailing the effect ...

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The success of the film Oppenheimer has shone a spotlight on the work done by scientists in New Mexico as they developed the first nuclear bomb. But 80 years later, some local people say their ...

Mathematician Kurt Gödel died 47 years ago today, but his Theorem lives on, in ways far beyond its original scope.

Oppenheimer believes Integral Ad Science (IAS) could be a significant beneficiary from Meta‘s (META) announcement that it will be ending ...