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These superfluids are created when a cloud of atoms is subjected to ultra-cold temperatures approaching absolute zero (−459.67 °F).

And experiments with cold atoms can help scientists develop theories about what physics might be at play in some unexplained neutron star phenomena.

To determine the neutron lifetime, two types of experiments have been conducted: beam experiments, using neutron fluxes, and bottle experiments, using ultra-cold neutrons confined in containers.

The experiment, known as UCNtau (for Ultra Cold Neutrons tau, where tau refers to the neutron lifetime), has revealed that the neutron lives 14.629 minutes with an uncertainty of 0.005 minutes.

The other, the bottle method, traps free neutrons in a big, cold, magnetized bowl (or bottle) and counts the number of neutrons that remain.