The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

As the subtitle suggests, it covers key British experiences of how the media handled GM food (“Frankenfoods”), use of animals ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...

Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story ...

An international group of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have shown that we will be able to learn about the masses of the earliest stars by studying a specific radio signal – created ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the ...

Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (ERF) enables early career researchers with clear leadership potential to establish a strong, independent research programme. They encourage talented researchers in UK ...

FAMOUS FOREBEAR: Professor Mary Fowler with a copy of her great-grandfather Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize certificate, which she has donated to Nelson College, his old school.MARION VAN ...

We are pleased to announce our 2025 internal University of Plymouth School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics competition to select a scientist to submit an application to the Ernest Rutherford ...