Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

Hugh O'Neill uses neutron beams at ORNL to study biological materials, potentially advancing biofuel production by ...

Using the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Indian astronomers have ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of ...

Supernova debris speeds up neutron stars, strengthening magnetic fields. This explains why low-intensity magnetars still produce bursts.

Neutron stars are the remains of massive supernova explosions, packing more than the mass of our Sun into a space barely the ...

Hugh O'Neill conducts plant cell wall research as part of the DOE Solvent Disruption of Biomass and Biomembranes Science ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of which – predicted to exist at high temperature ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly ...

The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.