"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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

When physicist Hans Bethe first heard of the atomic bomb project he thought it an impractical idea and he didn't want to get involved with it. He told a biographer after the war that, "I considered ...

Journalist Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop) recounts the life of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in this panoramic biography. Born in San Francisco in 1940, Lee grew up in Hong Continue reading » ...

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

Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...

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