For years, physicists have mapped the stability of atomic nuclei with remarkable confidence. The periodic table, with its ...
Known as “islands of inversion,” these odd regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...
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Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford being told in 1901, by his co-worker Frederick Soddy, ...
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You have full access to this article via your institution. By about 1860, a relative geological timescale was established based on the vertical succession of fossils, reflecting the sequence of ...