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Manhattan Project special agent dies in NYC

Leslie Groves, who ran the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M.---Online:Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://1.usa.gov/YeZ1rjNational World War II Memorial: http://bit.ly/12wUhps

Oregon senator seeks investigation into tank leaks

"The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.

Ex-Brown President Hornig dies, worked on a-bomb

Horning, a Harvard-trained physical chemist, worked from 1944 to 1946 on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos Laboratory, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

What holds energy tech back? The infernal battery

Batteries are so crucial to a greener energy future that the Obama administration has spent more than $2 billion to jump-start the advanced battery industry, including setting up what some experts...

Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

Manhattan Project scientist who also helped found the Santa Fe Institute.

Co-inventor of bar-code labeling system dies at age 91

Woodland notably had worked on the Manhattan Project, the U.S. military's atomic bomb development team.

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Nuclear protester trial gets underway this week

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A look at Charles Ergen, the man who wants to buy Sprint

His father was an Austrian-born nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.

10 Hanford managers indicted in timecard scheme

The federal government built the site in the 1940s as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project...

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So, today is one of those full of history: In 1610, Henry Hudson discovered Hudson Bay; in 1869...

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Co-inventor of the barcode, Norman Joseph Woodland, dies at 91

Woodland had quite a career beyond that invention, though, including time spent on the...