Join us as we dive into the exhilarating world of chain reactions with an incredible experiment involving 10,000 matches! Watch as each match is engulfed in flames, creating a mesmerizing dance of ...

The second was "Fat Man," which weighed 10,300 pounds (4,670 kg) and used plutonium-239 to set off a chain reaction. It was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.

Researchers have discovered how an inflammatory feedback loop initiated as cancer cells die helps cancer hijack immune ...

Excerpted from Chain Reaction: The Hopeful History of Uranium by Lucy Jane Santos with permission from Pegasus Books. November 2024.

A chain reaction: HIV vaccines can lead to antibodies against antibodies. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250117161118.htm ...

Following up on her history of radium in “Half Lives” (2021), Lucy Jane Santos now focuses, in “Chain Reactions,” on the element that started this atomic revolution—uranium.

A version of this article appears in the November 22, 1952 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers ...

The U.S. man-in-the-street had heard, but did not yet believe, that some day a scientist somewhere—perhaps in the U.S. —might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow ...