This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

Just 100 years ago, on 9 July 1925, Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his friend, colleague and fiercest critic, Wolfgang ...

This prompted Fermi to ask what was (to him) an obvious question: “where is everybody?” In a galaxy assumed to be filled with ...

As net zero goals revive the push for atomic power, could it light the way or lead to disaster? Three timely books explore ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president who served during his lifetime. Enrico Fermi, his mentor, once called him “the only true genius I have ...

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment.

And Enrico Fermi, who headed the Royal Physics Institute, would go on to create the world’s first nuclear reactor that led to the atomic bomb. By the 1960s and 1970s, the Italian nuclear weapons ...

Among those recruited by Oppenheimer to join the team was Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a nucleus ...

Among those recruited by Oppenheimer to join the team was Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. It has been claimed he was first to split the atom during experiments in Rome in 1934, when he broke a ...