Donald Trump’s allies are freaking out about the death of a pet squirrel—and somehow, it’s Kamala Harris’s fault.

The legend goes that after scientist Enrico Fermi helped bring an end to World War II through his crucial work on the Manhattan Project, he was asked what he’d like as a reward. The soft-spoken ...

Russian and/or North Korean threats of support for Iran could lay the groundwork for a multi-state nuclear conflict, one that ...

As “Jump” by Van Halen plays, vaporwave and ’80s and ’50s revival aesthetics pour over the screen, and Trump declares that ...

She was eventually hired to package K-rations at a converted Wrigley’s gum factory, and later found a job at the University ...

Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...

During the summer of 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a question to his colleagues over lunch, "Don't you ever wonder where everybody is?" Fermi was referring to alien life. In the 4.4 billion ...

Photo by Bortzells Esselte, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) left Italy in 1938 to receive the Nobel Prize for physics in Sweden. He never went back. He and his ...

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This is referred to as the Fermi Paradox, as suggested in 1950 by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi. The Drake Equation, say the researchers, assumes that an intelligent civilization ...

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

When Bethe saw the atomic pile that physicist Enrico Fermi had built at the University he became convinced that the atomic bomb would probably work. Hans Bethe was born in Strasbourg ...