A new study published in Scientific Reports simulates particle creation in an expanding universe using IBM quantum computers, ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.

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If once of your buddies needs to poop or pee, you are more likely to need to go as well, scientists say, confirming that is is not only yawning that is contagious. Their study of chimps showed ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

Donald Trump angered New Zealanders on his first day in office when he asserted that America split the atom, something that Sir Ernest Rutherford accomplished. Donald Trump angered New Zealanders ...

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester in ...

New Zealand physicist 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 ...

The mayor of Nelson in New Zealand's South Island seized on the subatomic slight, pointing out that work to split the atom was actually pioneered by Kiwi-born physicist Ernest Rutherford.

British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton ... that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts by New Zealanders, who said the achievement belonged to a pioneering scientist revered in his ...