Born into battle, the scrappy little state agency was immediately blocked by three years of anti-science lawsuits - but it defeated them all. And then? A quiet triumph. With a focused intensity like the Manhattan Project (but for peaceful purposes, not to build a bomb), scientists funded ...
When Trump picked “the Great Elon Musk,” the world’s richest man, to slash government spending and waste, he mused that the effort might be “the Manhattan Project of our time.” On Wednesday, that prediction looked spot on. Wielding the social platform he purchased for $44 billion in...
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
The study was funded by the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme1—which is an 8-year initiative designed to improve the lives of older people and is supported by five UK government research councils. The project involved recruiting five groups of older people from a variety of different backgrounds...
It was also a critical component of Muller's Nobel Prize lecture (Calabrese 2011a, 2012) and a major component of the health effects research of the Manhattan Project (Calabrese 2012, 2013; Caspari and Stern 1948; Spencer and Stern 1948; Uphoff and Stern 1949) and of the Atomic...
Taking down public monuments like these is no small decision. In these cases, the removal of the Confederate monuments was sparked by the June 2015 murder of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white supremacist claim...
But it was a certain Pop Art artist he met via a key Cornell classmate that catapulted his career. “I started by working for Andy Warhol, so you don’t get any bigger breaks than that, right, working on his 66th Street town house as the architect…and then I did The Factory,” ...
As part of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, it was necessary to understand nuclear reactions in detail. On December 2 underneath the football stands at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi used uranium to produce the first self-sustaining ...
In both elections, the state had been the tipping point in the Electoral College. Trump this year will take the state’s 10 electoral votes. Trump’s victory was powered by his strength with white voters without a college degree — a bloc that makes up a...
Political analyst Brit Hume was blunt. "Look, make no mistake about it, Trump had a bad night. He rose to the bait repeatedly when she baited him, something I'm sure his advisers begged him not to do ... in this debate we heard so many of the old grievances w...