Matthew Caplan /channels/taxonomy/term/18972/all en Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe /channels/channels/news/nuclear-pasta-hardest-known-substance-universe-289729 <p>A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe.</p> <p>Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at 平特五不中, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, successfully ran the largest computer simulations ever conducted of neutron star crusts, becoming the first to describe how these break.</p> Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:38:50 +0000 webfull 140996 at /channels