Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity

Family of Jewish physicist Benjamin Abeles, who was on a Kindertransport as a teen and became an activist to help refugees in his 80s, donates archive to University of Southampton

Undeterred by naysayers or controversy, Prof. Avi Loeb stuck to his guns about a rare 2014 space rock -- and his findings have finally been vindicated by the US government

Gertrude Goldhaber fled the Holocaust to become a renowned US researcher and women's rights activist. Her son is gifting a treasure trove of documents to NYC's Leo Baeck Institute

New film 'Adventures of a Mathematician' follows Stan Ulam, who lost nearly his entire family in the Holocaust, as he helps his new homeland's nuclear efforts during and after WWII

Sam Apple's new book 'Ravenous' tackles the fascinating scientific nexus between cellular metabolism and oncogenes, warning of a link between excessive sugar consumption and cancer

Jewish professor recognized in 1979 with work on mysteries of tiny particles and their electromagnetic interaction that built on Einstein's theory of relativity

Robert Lefkowitz documents his career, culminating in a discovery used in 50% of FDA approved drugs in new memoir, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm,' out this month

Anatoliy Daron, who recently died in US at 94, fled two Nazi massacres, lost his job in the Doctors' Plot, then, while living in a cramped shared flat, invented Sputnik's engine

Steinberger and two other Jewish colleagues were honored in 1988 for their discoveries about the neutrino; he refused to do research for weapon building