It was one of the most ambitious aviation projects of its time — and it came with a staggering price tag. This is the story of the aircraft that ended up costing more than the atomic bomb itself, ...

United Aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney Division revealed that it would start work on its supersecret atomic plane-engine laboratory for the Air Force this July, and that it will cost $30 million.

The exotic material is built from atomic planes composed of Vanadium atoms arranged on a so-called kagome lattice—a pattern of interlaced triangles and hexagons—stacked on top of one another, with ...

The presence of dislocations permits atomic planes to slip "one atomic row at a time." Dislocations interact with the microstructure of the material and these interactions are responsible for their ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.

inferring the atomic structure from the experimentally measured electron wavefunction. This is a much more laborious and demanding task. The electron wavefunction at the plane where the electrons ...