Physicists Stunned: Lead-208’s Shape Just Broke a Fundamental Rule of Nuclear Physics
For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.
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Physicists achieve record-breaking electron beam power and current
A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced. The team has published ...
Scientists Just Made the Kind of Quantum Physics Leap That Einstein Would’ve Loved
In this new paper, researchers describe how they were using an AI tool called PyTheus—which was built for designing quantum ...