Nuclear theory gets analytical
A new theory to predict the properties of nuclei is boosted by real data
Leonard Mandel and Ugo Fano die
The physics community loses two luminaries in as many weeks
Chirality crops up in nuclear physics
Contrary to expectations, nuclei can be left- or right-handed
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On the road to two-proton radioactivity
Radioactivity is the transformation of an atomic nucleus by one of several mechanisms. Henry Becquerel observed alpha particles: helium-4 clusters consisting of two protons and two neutrons ejected fr...
US science awards recognize physics
The US Government makes another presentation next week with the National Medal of Science awards on 1 December. Physicists Willis Lamb and Jeremiah Ostriker receive the medal. Lamb, of the University ...
Physicists discover new kind of radioactivity
Galindo-Uribarri and co-workers chose an isotope of neon with an energy structure that prevents it from emitting protons one at a time. This means that the two protons are certainly ejected simultaneo...
Exciting times for heavy nuclei
The researchers at the French GANIL accelerator studied heavy, highly charged ions, in which the attraction between the nucleus and the remaining electrons is extremely strong. As a result, the differ...
Promising new materials for better nuclear waste storage
The so-called ‘complex oxides’ are a group of ceramics with a common chemical formula consisting of two pairs of metallic cations and seven oxygen atoms. Sickafus and co-workers at Los Ala...
Sir Mark Oliphant dies
Oliphant was born in Adelaide in 1901 and attended the local university before going to Cambridge University in 1927, where he worked on nuclear physics experiments with Ernest Rutherford. In 1937 he ...
