Scientists Discovered a Nuclear Island That Flies in the Face of Traditional Chemistry

Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...
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Physicists spotted hidden order inside brutal proton collisions

Inside the most powerful particle colliders on Earth, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, shredding matter ...
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Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons − 75 years ago, 2 physicists discovered their special properties

(THE CONVERSATION) The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei – the center part of atoms, which make up all ...