Scientists have been left baffled after discovering something vast and radioactive lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean ...

The international team also used the data to get direct information about the deformation of the atomic nucleus in ytterbium ...

When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from ...

For almost a century, measurements have indicated that a significant proportion of matter in the universe consists of unknown ...

What would you think if they started talking about magic numbers and how a never-before-seen form of oxygen has made them question which numbers are really magic? While it may sound weird, it isn’t ...

Programme is part of mission to build world’s first nuclear fusion plant in the UK A particle accelerator in Oxfordshire is to rip up atoms to generate a crucial element for nuclear fusion ...

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 ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

The Mayor of Nelson has fact-checked newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump's claim an American split the atom. The atom was first split by Kiwi Sir Ernest Rutherford, originally from Nelson, in ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was peppered with many falsehoods — but the new president’s claim that the United States split the atom is one that caused international irritation ...