Scientist thinks bad-boy stars may produce elusive particle

Stand too close to a neutron star, and you'll lose the fillings in your teeth and the iron in your blood. Try to land on one, and you'll turn into liquid. Set a sugar cube-size sample of neutron star material on a table, and it will drill down to the center of the Earth.
It's lucky that neutron stars are so far away, said Montana State University physicist Bennett Link. At the same time, he said, scientists might want to take a better look at these bad-boy stars.
Link recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters that said hot young neutron stars could be a source for neutrinos, a tiny particle that normally eludes detection but may reveal new clues about the universe.