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

When something dies, a telltale radioactive signal ticks like a natural clock. Discovering it helped us solve all sorts of ...

Since the mid-20th Century, radiocarbon dating has confirmed the age of countless ancient artefacts ... atoms in the Earth’s atmosphere and changing their structure. The resulting carbon-14 atom ...

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 ...

Inspired by an artist's stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, ...

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 ...

Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for ...

A newly deciphered Herculaneum scroll, revealed through Pulsed Thermography, exposes fresh details about the Greek origins of ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...