First theorized in 1938, heat's wave-like flow through superfluids, known as "second sound", has proven difficult to directly ...

This dissertation of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, presents the precision mass spectrometry of neutron-rich ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

A process that is central to these interactions is neutron capture, which entails the absorption of a neutron by a nucleus, followed by the emission of gamma-rays. Researchers at Los Alamos ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said physicist Matthew Mumpower.

But this process can only produce the first 26 elements up to iron. Another process, known as rapid neutron capture, is thought to produce nuclei that are heavier than iron. As its name suggests ...

The team, led by Columbia doctoral student Anirudh Patel, ran models showing how a rapid neutron capture process (or the “r-process”) in the aftermath of a magnetar flare could create heavy ...

These elements, which include uranium and strontium, are produced in a set of nuclear reactions known as the rapid neutron-capture process, or r-process. This process requires an excess of free ...

HELSINKI and BOSTON, May 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Neutron Therapeutics LLC and the ... hospital with accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). This milestone marks the culmination ...