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Mathematician Amy Noether. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Glory and Persecution of a Dynasty of Mathematicians: Amy and Fritz Noether

My mother Noether transformed modern algebra and discovered the connection between symmetries and conservation laws, but for years she was denied a job because she was a woman. Her brother Fritz, an important mathematician in his own right, escaped from
Edward Teller, 1958. From Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Edward Teller: From Warning of a “Nazi Bomb” to Vision of the Hydrogen Bomb

How did exiled scientists from Europe accelerate the Manhattan Project, and why does the “father of the hydrogen bomb” remain a controversial figure to this day?
When two black holes collide, they release gravitational waves that allow scientists to determine their mass and spin. In January 2025, LIGO detected GW250114, the clearest signal yet of a black hole merger, providing new insights into these mysterious cosmic giants. Credit: Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation

Hawking was right: New data confirms black holes never shrink

The sharpest and brightest gravitational signal ever measured, GW250114, allows the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration to test Hawking's surface theorem and Einstein's prediction with unprecedented precision. Black holes "ring" after
First-hand inventions from artificial intelligence. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The references cannot be trusted.

Chatbots generate invalid links to non-existent sources, thereby undermining the role of the reference to the source.
Julius Gamble, 1931. From Wikimedia

Emil Julius Gumbel – Deadly Statistics

Leopold Infeld in a photograph from 1938. Public domain photo from Wikimedia

In Search of the Homeland: Leopold Infeld

Leopold Infeld's life journey: from the Krakow ghetto through collaboration with Einstein to protests against anti-Semitism and censorship in Poland
Bees return to the nest after collecting nectar in the spring. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Small but important: this is how Israel protects the bees

We depend on them, and not just for the honey. International Bee Day is a great opportunity to make some buzz for bees, one of the most important animals on the planet
An artist's rendering of a collection of pulsars detecting gravitational waves from pairs of orbiting supermassive black holes. Credit: Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration

Proof that the Earth is surrounded by a sea of ​​slow gravitational waves

"The effect of gravitational waves on pulsars is very weak and difficult to detect, but we built the credibility of the findings over time as we collected more data," said Caterina Cazziano, NANOGrav team member and senior lecturer at Caltech.
Einstein's big mistake. cover

The chapter The Origins of Genius from "Einstein's Big Mistake - The Life of an Imperfect Genius" by David Bodanis

From English: Haim Shmueli. Philosophy and Science series edited by Dr. Yehuda Meltzer Attic Books and Yediot Books 312 pages.
Black hole simulation. Quantum entanglement and black holes, two seemingly unrelated phenomena, may lead physicists to the long awaited unification: the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Image: Ute Kraus / Wikimedia.

A brief history of black holes

The image of Einstein from a 1968 Israeli five pound banknote. Photo: Arkady Mazor / Shutterstock.com

The man who changed the universe: 60 years since the death of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein. Photo courtesy of the National Academy of Sciences

The greatest mistake of the greatest scientist

Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann later the first president (from left) Menachem Oshiskin at a meeting in 1921. From Wikipedia

All the President's scientists