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Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

clearing the way for new nuclear physics experiments. University of Queensland researchers have made a breakthrough in muonic atom research, clearing the way for new nuclear physics experiments.