Scientists think the earliest mammals, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were quite hairy. But over hundreds of millions of years, a small handful of mammals, including humans, evolved to have ...

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"The probability (per unit area) of a nucleus capturing a neutron at a given kinetic energy is called neutron-capture cross section," Thanos Stamatopoulos, first author of the paper, told Phys.org.