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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

In his research, he proposed an atomic theory where he tried to describe the structure of atoms. Referred to as 'Rutherford's gold foil experiment,' his work is a part of science textbooks in schools ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...

The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. The latest, at CERN in Switzerland, hopes to offer the world another great leap forward in understanding and another step in a process ...