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 ...

nuclear fusion could generate limitless low-carbon electricity. However seven decades of research since then have failed to produce a large-scale reactor that generates more power than it requires ...

Microsoft has released MatterGen’s source code on GitHub The open-source AI model is available with an MIT licence MatterGen is a diffusion-based generative AI model ...

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 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 ...

Ernest Rutherford (right) and Hans Geiger led the experiments in Manchester Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's ...

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.

This is despite the fact New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, who was born in Brightwater near Nelson, was the first person to initiate an artificial nuclear reaction when he “split the atom” in ...