Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of the bombs Israel is using in Gaza are exceptionally big, weighing 1,000 to 2,000 pounds. The use of such large bombs on ...

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A mushroom column from the Trinity test in 1945. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 But our listeners responded with even more questions that we couldn’t get to—including ...

Israel's nearly seven-week-long aerial bombardment of Gaza has killed around 12,000 people and flattened large swathes of the small but densely populated strip. Analysts say that the scale of ...