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

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

The film explores the life of Enrico Fermi, a pivotal figure in atomic physics. It details his humble beginnings in Italy, his education at prestigious institutions, and his innovative ...

In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought them into scientific view, but the Manchester scientist was clear that he agreed with the Ancient Greeks and believed they could not be broken into ...

In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought them into scientific view, but the Manchester scientist was clear that he agreed with the Ancient Greeks and believed they could not be broken into ...

This week in Chicago, Enrico Fermi, 53, died of cancer. If he had lived a few years longer, medical techniques growing out of his own discoveries might have rid him of his fatal disease.

Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called ...

For this you need a special toolset to peer into the unknown and an approach that is often attributed to Enrico Fermi, whose questions led to love, friendship and learning. Fermi grew up in Rome, ...

The case for the Dark Forest theory The Fermi Paradox was casually raised by physicist Enrico Fermi during a lunchtime chat way back in 1950.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the student concourse of the Career Technology Center, home to both the Nuclear Engineering Technology program and the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant (Fermi I ...

Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, was associated with Libby’s own University of Chicago. His mission: to create a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, a key building block in the ...