A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

Physicists have found a new “island of inversion” in the nucleus of molybdenum-84, a perfectly balanced atom with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. The discovery upends a decades-old assumption ...

How long do free neutrons live until they decay? This has been a hotly debated topic, because different measurement techniques lead to different results. A possible new solution has now been proposed: ...

If you could freeze a film of two neutron stars crashing into each other, just after they collide, you would witness the formation of an object so massive and dense it shouldn’t exist: The stars would ...

Incorporated into every aspect of everyday life, the neutron is a fundamental particle of nature. Now, a research collaboration led by Los Alamos National Laboratory has improved the precision of free ...