When Donald Trump claimed US scientists split the atom in his inaugural speech, even he could not have imagined the chain reaction of online debate his boast would cause. Many of those leaping on it ...

Why saying who was first to split the atom is almost as hard as mastering atomic theory. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP. We and our partners use technologies, ...

Regardless of who was first to split the atom, the work of Rutherford, Walton, Cockcroft, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Geiger, Marsden and a host of other scientific pioneers paved the way for the nuclear ...

Mention the words, "splitting the atom," and most people will automatically think of nuclear fission, bombs and radioactivity. Recently, however, physicists at Germany's University of Bonn not ...

2,400 years after the Greek philosopher Democritus proposed the irreducible atom and more than 80 years after Ernest Rutherford first split it, the idea that these building blocks of matter are ...

Atom-waves interferometers are becoming ever more compact. A new way of coherently splitting atom waves, based on radiofrequency fields, could extend the capabilities of these miniature atom traps.

Splitting the atom was an extremely dangerous revolution on how humans treat the Earth, their sole home in the Cosmos. After all, the atom makes up the world and the Cosmos.