Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize technology by solving complex calculations and computations that are ...

A neutrino telescope, therefore, is a giant exercise in statistics. Observe lots of atoms for a long time and sooner or later ...

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

There were no calamitous new developments last year with respect to nuclear weapons—but this is hardly good news. Longstanding concerns about nuclear weapons—involving the modernization and expansion ...

Halford & Brough react to Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford's comments in the Globe & Mail, where he appeared to suggest that the team's current core could ...

Nelson, New Zealand, Mayor Nick Smith corrected President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech when it came to who gets credit for splitting the atom ... said Rutherford first crafted “a nuclear ...

Rutherford, a farmer’s son who worked in the UK and Canada, was a researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he was the first to split an atom in ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘He’s such an icon’ Rutherford, who belonged to a farmer's family, conducted research in nuclear and atomic physics while working in the UK and Canada. He split an atom for the first time in ...

One achievement – splitting the atom – was especially ... into two smaller atoms. In 1917, Rutherford became the first person to induce an artificial nuclear reaction, bombarding nitrogen ...