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

Fission sees the nucleus of unstable elements ... Regardless of who was first to split the atom, the work of Rutherford, Walton, Cockcroft, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Geiger, Marsden and a host of ...

Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Months after Amazon joined a half-billion-dollar funding round for next-gen modular nuclear startup X-energy, the biz has announced a ...

A sign of how serious Beijing is taking this new energy arms race emerged last week when the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Experimental observations of the half life of rutherfordium-252 demonstrate that its stability lies well within the limits ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was not an American.

At times their marriage splits her heart in two, like fission splits an atom’s nucleus. She falls into a flirtation with an army engineer, only to discover that he is probably a Soviet spy. She turns ...