For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays—without the ...

Antimatter is a fascinating kind of matter made up of antiparticles, which have a mass equivalent to that of their normal ...

An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

The recent inaugural address of President Donald Trump has sparked a heated debate over the origins of a groundbreaking scientific achievement: splitting the atom. Trump's claim that American ...

But it does – and the Tesla Model 3 is the best known. It is, famously, a fully electric car – Tesla doesn’t do petrols, diesels or even hybrids – and it’s the US brand’s smallest and ...

Programme is part of mission to build world’s first nuclear fusion plant in the UK A particle accelerator in Oxfordshire is to rip up atoms to generate a crucial element for nuclear fusion ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...

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 ...

J.J. Thomson — a professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge, who in 1897 discovered the electron and in 1904 proposed a model of the atom — was the first person to be ...