As net zero goals revive the push for atomic power, could it light the way or lead to disaster? Three timely books explore the possibilities ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

When President Donald Trump, in his second inaugural address last January, mistakenly credited Americans with splitting the atom, the reaction of shocked New Zealanders was immediate. In 1917, the ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...

Ernest Rutherford, the famous nuclear physicist, was one of the brightest luminaries at Cambridge University when C. P. SNOWwas doing his graduate work there. He came within the radiance of the ...

When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on it ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911.

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911.

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’ s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom. Trump made a claim Monday that an American ...

Donald Trump vexed New Zealanders on the first day of his presidency after he claimed that America split the atom – a feat achieved by Sir Ernest Rutherford from Nelson in New Zealand. Mr Trump ...

Trump's claim that American experts were responsible for this feat has been met with swift correction from New Zealanders, who proudly assert that their native son, Sir Ernest Rutherford, was the ...