In July 1954, Enrico Fermi took a beautiful and possibly quite dangerous trip to the French Alps as part of a group from The Summer School at Les Houches. The rest of this post will take a closer look ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory co-founder and physicist Dr. Edwin Goldwasser has died. He was 97. The physics department at the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign ...

What was Christopher Nolan thinking? In directing “Oppenheimer,” which has garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, Nolan relegates Enrico Fermi — the true architect of the nuclear age — to a bit part.

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

The Energy Department has awarded a $5 billion contract to a nonprofit organization that will help run the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Fermi Forward Discovery Group is ...

More than 1,000 high school students and teachers from across B.C. will participate in the 48th annual UBC Physics Olympics this weekend.

Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, is one of the principal founders of modern physics. On Dec. 2, 1942, he set in operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age.

The Department of Energy has awarded Fermi Forward Discovery Group a potential $5 billion contract to manage and operate an Illinois-based national laboratory that advances research and develops ...

BATAVIA, Ill. (WLS) -- Jessica Esquivel's love of science brought her to Fermilab in Batavia to do brand new research into the nature of the universe. Her love for her community is sharing that ...