Have you heard of the Demon Core? Though it sounds like some kind of a superstitious group, rest assured that is not what it is. Instead it refers to the time in which scientists at the Los Alamos ...

The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of ...

24-year-old Harry Daghlian was irradiated as a result of a criticality accident that occurred when he dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a 6.2 kg plutonium–gallium alloy bomb core. This core, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of ...