The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Apart from flashbacks that the hit Netflix series Breaking Bad may have conjured up, most of us have likely happily forgotten what we learned in chemistry classes back in school. So here’s a quick ...

What survives a black hole: an additional black hole, or a neutron star? Recalculations put the two at the same clock and the ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Is nature really as strange as quantum theory says -- or are there simpler explanations? New neutron measurements prove: It doesn't work without the strange properties of quantum theory. Can a ...

Ever since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have been using their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater ...

Matin Durrani visits the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US to find out how neutrons are being used to create a unique microscope that can see inside objects that other particles ...

While the European Spallation Source will be the most powerful source of neutrons in the world, David Burman looks at a proposal to modify the facility’s linear accelerator to also produce an intense ...

US scientists have gained a first-of-its-kind view inside advanced nuclear fuel by using neutron ...

In a first for tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel research, a cross-cutting effort among scientists at the Department of ...