If you listen closely, you may hear motorcycles approaching from the distance. Or maybe it sounds more like bees swarming. Perhaps it just sounds like a sci-fi background tone, meant to build tension.

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

The sound from inside a neutron star has been recreated by scientists. Researchers from MIT listened to sound waves moving through a “perfect fluid”. For physicists, this means a fluid that flows with ...

We don't really know, but probably some truly bizarre physics. Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are the ...

The heaviest neutron star ever detected is shredding its companion while spinning on its axis over 700 times per second. The neutron star, known as PSR J0952-0607, was discovered in 2017 about 3,000 ...

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 ...

For some, mixing is the most thrilling stage of a project, the place where musicality, imagination and technical nous combine in an endlessly creative and deeply satisfying quest for perfection. But ...

For four years, James Chadwick was a prisoner of war in Germany. When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford. Now head ...

Among atomic particles, the neutron seems the most aptly named: Unlike the positively charged proton or the negatively charged electron, neutrons have a charge of zero. But new experiments conducted ...