"November 2017"--Title page verso. NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a ...

A Nasa researcher has suggested aliens may have got bored of trying to communicate with Earth and given up. The new ...

Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, is one of the principal founders of modern physics. On Dec. 2, 1942, he set in operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age.

If the universe is full of habitable worlds, where is everybody?” A viral Reddit thread reignited the debate, mixing alien ...

The film discusses the pivotal role of physicist Enrico Fermi during World War II, particularly in the development of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb. It details his collaboration with other ...

There are tens of billions of galaxies in the universe, each with tens of billions of stars. Many stars have planets, and a healthy fraction of those are rocky and can sustain liquid water on their ...

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos has been named one of this year’s winners of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, a prestigious science and technology honor given by the U.S.