Historically, nuclear power systems have been approximately 97% identical to coal power plants, with the primary difference being the heat source, which is the energy required to convert water into ...

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Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through ...

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A newly discovered aluminium isotope rapidly self-destructs by ejecting three protons in a rare sequence — shaking up our understanding of atomic decay.

Physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have reported the first observation and spectroscopy of aluminium-20, a ...

An experiment that scattered high-energy electrons from helium-3 and tritium nuclei has provided the first evidence for three-nucleon short-range correlations. The data were taken in 2018 at Jefferson ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Beyond plans to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo Era, NASA and other space agencies have ...

Why do the atomic weights on the periodic table keep changing? Kit Chapman meets the team behind the decimal places ...