Neutron stars are extremely strong cosmic magnets which fields are expected to decay with time. Here we report on the simple test of this process. Adopting a novel approach, we have estimated surface magnetic fields $B$ for 76 radiopulsars (the most numerous subclass of the known isolated neutron stars) which ages $t$ are known independently. Focusing on the accurate evaluation of the precision of both quantities, we determined a significant power-law trend $B(t) \propto t^{-\beta}$ with index $\beta = 0.19^{+0.05}_{-0.06}$ at 95\% C.L. The effects of the observational selection turn this value into the upper limit for the intrinsic field decay rate. If so, then neutron star crusts are close to the "impurity-free crystals", which results in a relatively slow magnetic fields decay.
Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Open Access Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). Based on the talk made at "Physics of Neutron Stars -- 2017", July 10 -- 14, Saint Petersburg, Russia