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

Physicist Eliezer Rabinovici will head the CERN Council, which governs the organization and oversees major decisions including programs and budgets

Hundreds of radioactive 'Heisenberg cubes' were lost to history after war, but new forensic analysis on the material could fill historical gaps, boost nuclear safeguards

Physicist Lisa Meitner discovered nuclear fission soon after fleeing Nazi Germany 1938, but the Nobel Prize was given to a man as she saw her breakthrough used in ways she opposed

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

European Commission spokesman says Tehran's steps 'undermine' 2015 nuclear deal as European powers seek ways to keep it alive

Scientists killed at secretive nuclear research facility were believed to be developing Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile