State Sens. Shane Reeves and Dawn White each tout their sponsoring bills for news story, including private school vouchers and farmland preservation.

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

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

In his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump claimed an American first split the atom. A New Zealand mayor immediately disputed.

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

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

“That honour belongs to Nelson’s most famous and favourite son Sir Ernest Rutherford. He was the first to artificially induce a nuclear reaction by bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles.

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

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

The atom was first split by Kiwi Sir Ernest Rutherford, originally from Nelson, in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England. But during Trump's inauguration speech, he used it as an ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...