Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

Oklo and Atomic Alchemy are forming a strategic partnership to produce radioisotopes from Oklo’s recycling process and through fast reactor production of isotopes. The partnership will aim to increase ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Tokyo Tech: "The theory of atomic nuclear structure may need to be rewritten" The oxygen isotope discovered by a research ...

For the first time those little numbers that appear beneath some of the commonest elements in the periodic table boxes are about to change from a single value to an interval of numbers An ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure ...