From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

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 ...

This view of the atomic nucleus changed when James Chadwick discovered the existence of the neutron in 1932, for which he won the Nobel Prize three years later. Not too long afterward, scientists ...

James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, transformed nuclear physics. The work of the Nobel Prize winner led to groundbreaking advancements in atomic theory, nuclear energy, and medical treatments, ...

These included J.J. Thomson's 1897 discovery of the electron and James Chadwick's 1932 identification of the neutron. But perhaps the most famous of these experiments was Hans Geiger and Ernest ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Scientists have finally proven the existence of "supersolids," a bizarre state of matter that behaves like both a liquid and ...