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

Just as some relief arrives following the coldest air of the season that gripped the Northeast this week, separate Alberta Clipper systems are set to bring rounds of snowfall to parts of the region.

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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 ...

for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 Rutherford’s most famous experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles. The unexpected results revealed ...

It was physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, who managed to reach that historic milestone in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England and the element rutherfordium was named ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. British scientists Dr. E.T.S. Walton, left, and Dr. F.D. Cockroft, right, stand with Lord Rutherford outside ...

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 ...

The claim sparked backlash from officials and social media users in across the country, with many asserting that Rutherford's groundbreaking work is a source of national pride. Ernest Rutherford ...

The atom was first split by Kiwi Sir Ernest Rutherford, originally from Nelson, in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England. But during Trump's inauguration speech, he used it as an ...

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 ...

It has been used for more than 120 years, she said, to acknowledge scientists who identified and manipulated the parts of an atom, which was once the smallest known particle of matter. J.J ...