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 ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the ...

Physicists have directly observed the electronic building blocks responsible for flat bands in quantum materials, confirming ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Failure is a necessity in scientific research. In my field of particle physics, breakthroughs are often measured in decades.

Three American scientists have been named by the White House as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Héctor D. Abruña, Paul Alivisatos, and John H. Nuckolls were recognized for ...