separated by what Democritus, the first atomist, called ‘the void’. Nor are they indivisible – though this is exactly what, etymologically, the term ‘atom’ (atmos) means. According to modern physics’ ...

Watch the animation below to find out more. INSERT[UUPT_CM_CI08_ani] MM looks at origins of the concept and word atom as defined by Democritus. The atom was a revolutionary idea but unfortunately it ...

Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.

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 ...

Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

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 ...

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 ...

When OpenAI announced a new generative artificial-intelligence (AI) model, called o3, a few days before Christmas, it aroused both excitement and scepticism. Excitement from those who expected its ...