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  Note: The legwork and credit for the discovery I’m going to talk about below goes to Usman Pirzada of WCCFTech. I was on vacation last week when this news broke, but I ran some tests for him on an AMD laptop to make certain these findings applied to both …

Mission Carries Out Space-Based Measurements of Neutron’s Lifetime Using data acquired in 2007 and 2008 during flybys of Venus and Mercury by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, researchers found the neutron lifetime to be 780 seconds. Cosmic rays striking Venus’ atmosphere eject neutrons that gradually fly into space. As neutrons move to …