Although biologists have studied seasonal processes for centuries, we know surprisingly little about the impacts of shifting ...

For a different take on Rutherford’s discovery, Dacey also met physicist John Schiffer of Argonne National Laboratory, who has been an active nuclear researcher since completing his PhD in 1954.

What Rutherford discovered was the atomic nucleus, containing virtually all the mass of an atom, confined to a volume one-quadrillionth (10-15) the size of the entire thing. It was the birth of ...

Rutherford’s discovery is now often described as ‘splitting the atom’ in popular accounts, but this should not be confused with the process of nuclear fission discovered later in the 1930s. Between ...

He would not personally help chemist Fritz Haber, however, who had been instrumental in creating chemical weapons in World War I. Rutherford died two years before the discovery of atomic fission. "All ...