When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

A new partnership with Rutherford County Mayor Joe Carr would establish a “study group” meant to find more efficient ways of disposing solid waste. “We have smart and thoughtful members in ...

We find comfort and familiarity in our daily repetitive activities. I think this attraction to cyclical processes is what makes the Universe in an Atom Theory so fascinating. In case you’ve never ...

Halford & Brough react to Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford's comments in the Globe & Mail, where he appeared to suggest that the team's current core could ...

The United States was built by immigrants, a statement that is also true for its scientific and technological sectors. Even today, despite recent challenges faced by immigrants due to policies from ...

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom ... son Sir Ernest Rutherford,” Smith wrote ...

(AFP via Getty Images) The atom was fully split in a controlled manner in 1932 by British and Irish researchers John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton under Rutherford’s supervision. Mr Trump was ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the sub-atomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.