All known atomic nuclei and therefore almost all visible matter consists of protons and neutrons, yet many of the properties of these omnipresent natural building blocks remain unknown. As an ...

One of the most puzzling known particles of the atom is the neutron, the uncharged building block of the nucleus. To explain its lack of electrical charge, nuclear physicists have long supposed that ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been doing research into neutrons that could potentially confirm the existence of real-life portals. This has got the internet thinking about the 'Upside Down' in ...

Physicists have found the strongest sign yet of a fabled four of a kind. For six decades, researchers have hunted for clusters of four neutrons called tetraneutrons. But evidence for their existence ...

The famous double slit experiment shows that particles can travel on two paths at the same time -- but only by looking at a lot of particles and analysing the results statistically. Now a ...

Computer generated image of a neutron star, including surrounding magnetic fields. Quiescent neutron stars are an ideal laboratory to search for a possible form of dark matter. Neutron stars are the ...

Click to open image viewer. Replicas of Cavendish Lab. Apparatus (5, l. to r.); obj. ID no. EM.N-08013-A Thompson's cathode ray tube #2, EM.318206 Thompson's cathode ray tube #3, EM.N-08019 Rutherford ...

An international research team has measured neutron form factors with previously unattained precision. All known atomic nuclei and therefore almost all visible matter consists of protons and neutrons, ...