Sergey Taskaev and co-workers have developed a reliable source that produces so-called epithermal neutrons (energies between 0.4 eV and 10 keV), which have relatively slow speeds up to around 1 ...

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Already in his original work on the properties of high-speed neutrons Chadwick recognised their great effectiveness in producing nuclear transmutations1. Especially after the discovery of ...

While neutron stars typically rotate in milliseconds or seconds, ASKAP J1839-075 takes an astonishing 6.45 hours to complete ...

When they are formed, neutron stars rotate in space. As they compress and shrink, this spinning speeds up because of the conservation of angular momentum—the same principle that causes a ...

Researchers have discovered that the neutron star in the binary system 4U 1820-30 rotates at an astonishing speed of 716 ...

Here on our planet, earthquakes are a fairly common experience for many. It appears that similar “quakes” also rock other ...

Scientists can infer the shapes and sizes of molecules and crystals by directing neutrons at them, and measuring how the particles change energy, speed and direction after the encounter.

Dead stars — or neutron stars — normally spin at breakneck speeds, but a team of astronomers has clocked the new-found star taking a leisurely six-and-a-half hours to undertake just one spin ...

Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time.

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...