A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

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

During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective, it takes only a small amount of uranium to create a large ...

Heavy water can help keep such a chain reaction going. As each uranium atom breaks apart, it shoots out neutrons that can go on to split other atoms. But the neutrons are much more likely to ...

Uranium; radiation detectors ... Otto Hahn’s name might not be familiar, but it should be. In splitting the atom, he unwittingly and single-handedly unlocked one of the most powerful forces ...