Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims in his inaugural speech, says a lecturer at one of the city's universities.

Wheeler was a legendary scientist that studied under Niels Bohr, who created the most widely recognized model for the atom called the Bohr model.

Nobel prize-winning British physicist, who gave his name to the "Higgs boson", a particle that helps explain why the basic building blocks of the Universe - atoms - have mass.

Usually, auroras observed at low latitudes appear red due to the emission of oxygen atoms.

At the molecular level, methane is made of a single carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms.