Protons in neutron-rich nuclei have a higher average energy than previously thought, according to a new analysis of electron scattering data that was first collected in 2004. The research appears to ...

Space is an endless void of mysterious unknowns, and one particularly alluring enigma concerns the point at which neutron stars take on too much mass and collapse into black holes as a result.

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission ...

Astronomers have spent more than a decade watching a compact stellar remnant called P13 slip into near silence and then surge ...

The collision of two neutron stars around 130 million light-years from Earth, and the unique physics this merger created, may have shed new light on dark matter. Axions have never been directly ...

The cosmos has delivered a rare kind of fireworks display, and astronomers are racing to understand what it means. A strange double flash from a distant galaxy appears to show two neutron stars ...

Astrophysicists have found evidence of a strange substance called quark matter at the heart of compact stars. Combining recent theoretical calculations with measurements of gravitational waves from ...

Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron ...

Parity violation in neutron physics represents a subtle but fundamentally important deviation from mirror symmetry in nuclear interactions. This phenomenon arises from the interplay between the weak ...

So what are ultracold neutrons? Peter Geltenbort: The “thermal neutrons” produced by a research reactor such as ILL have energies of a few hundredths of an electron volt. On average they travel at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A strange quantum phenomenon predicted more than 80 years ago finally may have been observed in ...