to create the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. Technically speaking, the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source is the world’s most powerful accelerator-based source ...

A prototype microscope that uses neutrons instead of light to "see" magnified images has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Neutron microscopes might ...

Researchers on the ALICE experiment are uncovering the properties of elusive hyperon particles hypothesized to be found inside neutron stars. Scientists know a thing or two about neutron stars, the ...

In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a new way to take the temperature of a material at the nanoscale—the organization has developed a giant thermometer. The technology ...