In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been called the ... repeated his experiments over the next four years and by 1938, realised what Fermi had discovered was nuclear fission. Fission sees the nucleus ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

and increment one point up the scale each year. Experienced candidates applying for one of the schemes aimed at senior researchers with postdoctoral experience and leadership potential may be eligible ...

It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological ...