Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have achieved a big breakthrough in neutron research. They ran a neutron production system for 1,250 hours using a 1.7-megawatt proton beam. This ...

Oak Ridge Lab's Spallation Neutron Source reached 1.7 MW with a new target for 1,250 hours, ahead of a 2025 review.

Members of the target design team pose next to the 2.0-megawatt-capable mercury flow target they developed. Credit: Genevieve ...

Steven Lamoreaux is an atomic physicist whose research has contributed to our understanding of the dark matter that is bound ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

When the two neutron stars collide, the initial kilonova of exploded neutron star guts is extremely hot, billions of degrees, ...

Researchers have uncovered where FRBs are more likely to occur in the universe -- massive star-forming galaxies rather than low - mass ones.

Around 700 km south-east of Beijing, the QC4SimRec research effort at SDU is overseen by Xingtao Huang, dean of the university’s Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science and an ...

As ISIS – the UK’s muon and neutron source – turns 40, Rosie de Laune and colleagues from ISIS explore the past, present and future of neutron scattering ...

In this video, we explore the extreme gravity, intense radiation, and mind-bending physics that make neutron stars some of the most dangerous objects in the universe. Astrum Posted: October 25 ...