The carving was commissioned by Pyotr Kapitsa, Nobel Laureate and leading Soviet physicist, who spent 13 years studying at the Cavendish. He was also known for setting up the Kapitsa Club, which was a ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

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

(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 ...

If once of your buddies needs to poop or pee, you are more likely to need to go as well, scientists say, confirming that is is not only yawning that is contagious. Their study of chimps showed ...

Krita is a powerful drawing tool with plenty of features to create high-quality art. It's absolutely free and provides tools for digital drawing and 2D animation. Why you can trust Windows Central ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

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.

The Meadows Museum, SMU, will examine the far-reaching influence of 19th-century Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838–1874) in the new exhibition “Fortuny: Friends and Followers.” This ...

The exhibition Walk This Way spans an arc from the 1960s all the way to the present and directs attention to works by contemporary artists in which the city becomes a stage and the act of walking ...

Rutherford Hayes Portrait, 19th President of the United States Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Hayes was born October 4, 1822 and died January ...