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Commentary I dread Memorial Day. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t honor our military heroes ...

Racial justice protests, political turmoil and the pandemic all left their mark on each and every person, and students were not immune to it. So the faculty at Warren Tech in the Jefferson County School district wanted to give their classes a way of conveying how the last year has changed them. They found their medium in the poster.

Beloved ‘Gatekeeper’ Made Manhattan Project Work By Heather McClenahan Los Alamos Historical Society Spies tried to ingratiate themselves to her. She scoured Santa Fe for exotic holiday items for European scientists. People who walked through the front door of her office sometimes disappeared out the back. Dorothy McKibbin, known as the Gatekeeper to Los Alamos, has become one of the most well-known historical figures of the Manhattan Project, and she is the most universally beloved. She ...

Share this article Share this article ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  The Smithsonian-affiliated National Museum of Nuclear Science & History will virtually host the 23rd Annual Einstein Gala, beginning at 6 p.m. MST on Saturday, March 20, 2021. This 23rd annual, black-tie science party will go virtual - after being canceled in 2020 and seeing the museum close to the public for six months - to continue to raise funds for this non-profits STEM education programs for students ...

Lilli and Donald Hornig were an instrumental part of the Manhatten Project. The Hornigs were brilliant chemists.