Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Languages: English. New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement ...

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 ...

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who was born in Brightwater near Nelson, was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in ...

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 ...