In 1919, Rutherford went a step further, successfully disintegrating the nucleus of a nitrogen atom by firing alpha particles, thereby producing oxygen atoms and free protons. This was the first ...

(AP Photo/Len Puttnam, File) Follow live updates on President Donald Trump’s return to Washington WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...

Languages: English. New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement ...

The Mayor of Nelson has fact-checked newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump's claim an American split the atom. The atom was first split by Kiwi Sir Ernest Rutherford, originally from Nelson, in ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Among other false and misleading claims in U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration addresses on Tuesday, his declaration that Americans “split the atom ...

Rutherford and his colleagues manipulated the atom itself. In 1917, at the University of Manchester, he undertook a series of experiments that changed nitrogen atoms into oxygen atoms, a ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

Languages: English. Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative ...

A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, where no light can penetrate, was a scientific bombshell.

If oxygen can be made in the dark ocean on Earth, researchers believe it could be happening on other planets Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen ...

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest parts of Earth's oceans in order to understand the strange phenomenon.