Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Moaning Cavern in nearby Vallecito features the largest single cave chamber in California, where you can actually rappel 165 feet to the bottom if walking down the spiral staircase isn’t adventurous ...

Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...

University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, ...

A new quantum computing protocol may be able to augment a standard technique for understanding molecules in chemistry, ...

A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming ...

The idea of the atom as the building block of matter has developed over time. What was thought of as a single particle about 1 × 10‾¹⁰ m across is now known to be a collection of smaller particles.

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...

I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our ...