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University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...
I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the ...
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"Thus, even as a cornerstone of the nuclear landscape, 208 Pb remains a puzzle for nuclear structure theories." Doubly magic nuclei are particularly stable against nuclear decay; 208 Pb is the ...
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 matter – were more ...
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