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

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 ...

and highlight some of the key research that has been performed at the facility over the last 40 years When British physicist James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932, he supposedly said, “I am ...

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 ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...