LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca (AZN.L) Chief Executive Pascal Soriot is a big believer in science, and the biggest experiment of his career is the reinvention of the drugmaker. The $500 million ...

Robert Brownlee was on the Operation Plumbbob team that launched an object in space before Sputnik. They put a manhole cover above a nuke underground, and the explosion shot the iron cap into space.

When I first saw this story on an old Quora thread, I didn't believe it. It wasn't like that. This manhole cover was shot into space with a nuclear bomb. Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who ...