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During World War II (1939–45), women undertook many roles that were previously exclusively male, including roles as scientific researchers. American crystallographer Isabella L. Karle developed processes to isolate plutonium chloride from impure plutonium oxide while working on the Manhattan Project. American mathematician Grace Murray Hopper worked for the U.S. Navy as one of the first computer programmers, and American biologist Rachel Carson worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (from 194...

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone

From the blog of Elchanan Poupko at The Times of Israel

The decision comes eight years after the department declassified documents related to a Cold War hearing for Oppenheimer, who was accused of having communist sympathies.

Today is the 300TH day of 2022. There are 65 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1960: George William Gordon House (also called Gordon House), the Jamaican Parliament building, is named...

Imagine you are a crucial person in the discovery of something in nature of historic proportions. How would you feel that you have trodden on the soil where nobody in the history of humanity has trespassed? What an honor and joy to discover something about nature that is new to our quest for knowledge. The obstacles in life seem unimportant during those moments of great discoveries. This is precisely what many scientists have experienced in their journey to understanding, among them, Madame prof...

Meitnerium is the only element in the periodic table to be named for a woman.

New children's books by local Jewish authors thrust kids in the worlds of food, mysticism and more, with breathtaking art and engaging stories.

The eco-war on nuclear power is at the heart of Germany’s catastrophic energy crisis.

On July 16, 1945, the world saw its first-ever recorded nuclear explosion at a test site at a barren stretch of the Alamogordo Bombing Range near Los