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 ...

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 ...

"I can not let you escape, Squidward. I'm adding another demon core to your confinement until you calm down." This short but simple one-liner viral meme's made for a few laughs recently. There's ...

Raised under the tutelage of Sonic the Hedgehog and the Gunstars. Jorge came from an age where protagonists never spoke and instruction manuals were over 50 pages long. When Jorge isn't writing about ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to the Demon Core story, breaking down what happened and the science behind this infamous nuclear ...

Nuclear fission is a powerful phenomenon. When the conditions are right, atomic nuclei split, releasing neutrons that then split other nuclei in an ongoing chain reaction that releases enormous ...