Neutron stars may be quite a bit bigger than previously thought

It's a little bit weird how the very small is connected to the very large in our Universe. At some level it makes sense, since everything is made of subatomic particles, but in general the specifics of those particles is only important on incredibly small scales; on more human scales more macrophysical laws come into play and dominate.

But an experiment recently run on the size of a lead nucleus has big implications for neutron stars — literally. In a nutshell, the measurements of the nucleus o...