Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

Let us, then, dismantle the myth of the self-made man, not to devalue individual effort, but to tell the whole truth.

Ernest Rutherford, left, and JJ Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930s. Initially, Rutherford’s legacy pointed to New Zealand as a potential leader in nuclear science. When I was growing up ...

Why Solvay was Belgium’s titan of industry and ideas Ernest Solvay was laid to rest 100 years ago in the nearby Ixelles cemetery after a prodigious career, much of which is not widely known today.

Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, like almonds, according to a new study by Japanese scientists.

Others, such as the brilliant New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, probed the atom’s surprisingly spacious interior and started to unravel the mysteries of the nucleus, which he could neither ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

The present state of our knowledge of the elements of atomic structure was reached, however, by the discovery of the atomic nucleus, which we owe to Rutherford, whose work on the radioactive ...

Piecing it together Connecting ideas and inspiration from a range of disciplines helps to increase the pace of scientific breakthrough. (iStock/Floriana) I recently heard a physicist jocularly remind ...