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

By striking Iran’s nuclear sites, the United States has done what was both necessary and inevitable.

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...

Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age, 1895-1965 (Allen Lane, 2025) Ruth Lewin Sime, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (University of California Press, 1996) ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

Despite progress in recent years, women remain underrepresented in nuclear science and technology fields. The IAEA created the Lise Meitner Programme—named after the pioneering Austrian-Swedish ...

However Strassmann wrote that Meitner had still been the intellectual leader of the group, even from exile. There is evidence that Lise and her colleague and nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, did the ...

The Lise Meitner Programme, an IAEA flagship initiative to accelerate career development for women in nuclear fields, reached new heights last week with a visit to Japan. Launched in 2023 by IAEA ...