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 ...

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

University of Innsbruck's Institute for Breath Research. Her research focuses on the detection and analysis of volatile ...

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

New research suggests that a pigment that causes yellowing of the skin, or jaundice, may help protect people from the most severe consequences of malaria.

New research suggests that a pigment that causes yellowing of the skin, or jaundice, may help protect people from the most severe consequences of malaria.

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

Lise Meitner has fought for her entire life to be seen as a scientist, slowly building a career as a nuclear physicist in Berlin. When Adolf Hitler rises to power, the small gains she's made are ...

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At the Max Planck Society in Germany, the Lise Meitner Excellence Program—aimed at young female researchers—drew triple the number of applications from U.S.-based scientists this year as last year.

Citing figures like physicists Albert Einstein and Lise Meitner — both of whom emigrated to escape Nazi persecution during the Third Reich — the scientists wrote that Germany and Europe now have the ...

In that letter, physicist Lise Meitner, with the assistance of her young nephew Otto Frisch, provided a physical explanation of how nuclear fission could happen. It was a massive leap forward in ...