#Neutron

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News When a pair of ultradense cores of dead stars smashed into one another, the collision shot a bright jet of charged subatomic particles through space. Astronomers thought no such jet had made it out of the wreckage of the neutron star crash, first

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News When radiochemist Jennifer Shusterman and her colleagues got the first results of their experiment, no one expected what they saw: Atoms of a weird version of the element zirconium had enthusiastically absorbed neutrons. “People were quite surprised

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News A genie in a bottle might grant you a wish, but neutrons trapped in a bottle aren’t so accommodating. Outside of an atomic nucleus, the neutral particles eventually decay into other particles. But scientists aren’t sure exactly how long neutrons stick