Did you know that the word “atom” originates from the Greek ... When he rejoined renowned New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford – with whom he had previously apprenticed in Manchester ...

Even though Rutherford had proven the existence of the nucleus, some issues still remained unanswered, for example how electrons fitted into this new model. This 'solar system' model of the atom ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

Unlike nuclear fission, which creates energy by breaking an atom apart, fusion forces two ... New Zealander Ernest Rutherford at his lab in Cambridge. Since then, Australia remained at the ...

D.C., where he credited the United States with splitting the atom—an achievement that belongs to Sir Ernest Rutherford Read More ...

A new report argues that the west has ceded leadership in the nuclear sector to nations such as Russia and China. If it is to ...

A bold new quantum theory of gravity may finally bridge the long-standing rift between Einstein’s general relativity and ...

"The claim that dust is halfway between an atom and Earth would be valid on a logarithmic scale for dust particles that are a ...

Rutherford County library officials lost a consultant for a director-search after deciding "to protect children" by removing books on transgender topics. The Rutherford County Library System Board had ...

Rutherford County library officials disappointed free-speech advocates Monday by postponing a vote to potentially rescind their recent decision to remove transgender books from entire libraries "to ...