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

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Researchers at Brown University in the US have observed fractional excitons, a new class of quantum materials in a global ...

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Department of Medical Research, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien City 970, Taiwan Center for General Education, Tzu Chi University, Hualien City 970, Taiwan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...