Maria Sokolova, head of the Lise Meitner Research Group Bacteriophages at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, receives ...

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the ...

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann 1 have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they ...

Welcome back to the “Life in 2050” series! So far, we’ve looked at how ongoing developments in science, technology, and geopolitics will be reflected in terms of warfare and the economy.

And indeed Lise Davidsen is in a sense “going out.” After she gives her final performance as the wife who disguises herself as a man to save her husband, she’ll head home to Norway to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Soprano Lise Davidsen performs as Leonore, during a dress rehearsal of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” at New ...

Scientists like Marie Curie, who won a Nobel Prize in 1903 for her work on radioactivity, and Lise Meitner, who helped ... to juggle the career and family life that we have,” she underscored.

Pioneering scientists like Marie Curie, who paved the way for research on radioactivity, and Lise Meitner, who contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission these two have are true trailblazers. But ...

Now we have Lise Davidsen, clearly one-of-a-kind, with a voice of such magnificence that one might overlook what a fine, involved actress she is. Very obviously pregnant (after these performances she ...

Perhaps there is a clue in a letter Lise Meitner wrote to a woman friend in Berlin: “I love physics with all my heart. I can hardly imagine it not being part of my life. It is a kind of personal love, ...

Lise Meitner was a world-class physicist, who saw what others could not. She recognised nuclear fission – the splitting of the atom – before anyone else. Naomi Alderman meets her. Show more ...

Knowing under what conditions life emerged on Earth will give us valuable insight into how and where it may have developed elsewhere in the universe. We are constantly learning how our young planet ...