Items tagged with neutron

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Star Crust Strongest Material in Universe Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 18:03:17 - Anuradha Menon A new computer model suggests that the outer crusts of so-called neutron stars are the strongest known material in the universe. To determine the... read more

Neutron Stars Contain the Strongest Material Sunday, May 10th, 2009 - 13:59:01 - Ehud Rattner Talk about a hard body. New supercomputer simulations of the crusts of neutron stars--the rapidly spinning ashes left over from supernova... read more

New Cold Fusion Evidence Reignites Debate Thursday, March 26th, 2009 - 12:46:09 - Anuradha On Monday, scientists at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Salt Lake City announced a series of experimental results that they argue... read more

Fireworks From a Flaring Gamma-Ray Star Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 16:12:32 - Anuradha Menon Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years... read more

Can the LHC Swallow Earth? (Another Look) Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 10:31:54 - Anuradha Menon Nestled 570 feet beneath the Alps on the Swiss-French border is the world’s largest physics experiment — the Large Hadron Collider. Constructed for... read more

NASA'S Telescope Unveils a Dozen New Pulsars Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 18:40:14 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are... read more

New Detector Will Aid Search For Dark Matter Friday, December 12th, 2008 - 14:22:08 - Anuradha Menon Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious "dark matter" believed to dominate the universe's... read more

Searching for Primordial Antimatter Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 12:25:03 - Anuradha Menon Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - leftover from the very early Universe. New results using data from... read more

A Superfluid-Superconductor Relationship Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 - 20:53:51 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first... read more

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