A university building at the centre of an investigation after six cancer deaths following nuclear experiments 100 years ago poses no more of a risk than passive smoking, an official report has found.

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Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...

Revealing the science that propelled Nelson’s greatest son to a Nobel Prize, Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics traces key concepts in modern science from their origins in the work of ...

The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. The latest, at CERN in Switzerland, hopes to offer the world another great leap forward in understanding and another step in a process ...