James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

It was 100 years ago today that Ernest Rutherford put forward the 'planetary' theory of the atom with a very small positively charged nucleus orbited by electrons, a discovery that underpinned ...

Like many another elderly and distinguished scientist, Britain’s Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom’s electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an ...