A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

By twisting layers of graphene, researchers discovered a unique electronic crystal where electrons freeze in place yet allow ...

He shares the results of his electron-beam lithography experiments in his latest video (embedded below). In e-beam lithography, or EBL, shapes are drawn onto a wafer using an electron beam in a ...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has created the brightest X-ray source to date, by directing the laser of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) onto ultra-light metal foams. Reported ...

Languages: English. New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement ...

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 ...

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 while ...

The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail how the a graphene sheet used as a crystal grating withstood 100 hours of irradiation from an atom beam without damage, and distinctive ...

"Your dentist's machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy ... as the higher the atomic number of the metal atom, the higher the energy of the X-rays that it produces.