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Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.

Letters between Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn reveal how she struggled with Hahns failure to credit her work and condemn the Nazi atrocities

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Every Seed Is a Prayer (And Your World Is a Seed) by Stephen Case (audio)

A posting on the university’s website announced his death, from throat cancer. In the most recent installment of the series, 63 Up, in 2019, he described his struggles with the disease

Nicholas Hitchon, whose life was chronicled in the acclaimed “Up” series of British documentaries, beginning when he was a boy in the English countryside in 1964 and continuing through the decades as he grew to become a researcher and professor at the University of Wisconsin, died July 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was 65.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Every Seed Is a Prayer (And Your World Is a Seed) by Stephen Case

This morning I read with interest a paper on Physics Today, titled "Communicating the Science of Climate Change", by R. Somerville and S. Hassol. In it, there is a table worth pondering about. Here it is:

Dr. Lewis Worth Seagondollar was born in Hoisington in 1920.

One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Turns out that what you might have read about the Church and science is mostly bogus. A look at history will give you a new perspective.