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An international team of researchers recently measured the lifetime of a neutron outside of an atomic nucleus with extraordinary precision. By their

The world's most precise measurement of the neutron's lifetime has an uncertainty of less than one-tenth of a percent.

A worldwide collaboration of scientists has announced the most precise measurement ever taken of a neutrons lifetime. How? By giving ...

We now know, to within a tenth of a percent, how long a neutron can survive outside the atomic nucleus before decaying into a proton.