Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atomic bombs work via a process called nuclear fission that involves atom splitting. Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear ...

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Particles called neutrons are typically very content inside atoms. They stick around for billions of years and longer inside some of the atoms that make up matter in our universe. But when neutrons ...