Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

Neutron stars explained through the final moments of massive stars reveal some of the most extreme objects in the universe. When stars between eight and twenty times the Sun's mass exhaust their ...

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 ...

The oscillating frequencies of two short gamma-ray bursts are the best evidence yet for the formation of 'impossible' hypermassive neutron stars that can briefly defy gravity before collapsing to form ...

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, ...