At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

More than 1,600 respondents reflected the chilling effect across research fields caused by the slashing of federal funding ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

The threat of nuclear war, far from diminishing, remains a lingering shadow that shapes the political and military decisions ...

The Nobel Committee awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize ... Hahn and Strassmann its prestigious Enrico Fermi Award “for pioneering research in the naturally occurring radioactivities and extensive ...

Although her male colleagues received the Nobel Prize for their work, Meitner was overlooked. However, she was later honored with the Enrico Fermi Award in 1966, and in 1997, Element 109 was named ...

which won the group's leader Enrico Fermi the Nobel Prize for physics in 1938. Following Fermi's departure for the United States in 1938 and the disruption of the original group, Amaldi took upon ...

Back in the 1930s, the University of Rome La Sapienza was in the vanguard of quantum physics. And Enrico Fermi, who headed the Royal Physics Institute, would go on to create the world’s first nuclear ...