A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields—rivaling those near neutron stars—all within a compact laboratory setup.

Rocket Lab is a launch service provider and spaceflight company founded in 2006 and based in Long Beach, California. The Neutron is central to Rocket Lab's plans to shift from small satellite ...

Reports from China about a fusion-reaction breakthrough are both fascinating and terrifying. According to The South China Morning Post, the teacup-sized reactor in the so-called portable neutron gun ...

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The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

Incorporated into every aspect of everyday life, the neutron is a fundamental particle of nature. Now, a research collaboration led by Los Alamos National Laboratory has improved the precision of free ...

"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning ...