Thorium plated steel points to smaller nuclear clocks
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Last year a UCLA-led team achieved a long-sought goal in nuclear spectroscopy by making radioactive thorium-229 nuclei absorb and emit photons in a controlled way, a capability scientists had pursue ... more
New island of inversion found in proton neutron symmetric molybdenum nuclei
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2025
For decades, nuclear physicists have known that so called islands of inversion mark regions of the nuclear chart where standard shell structure breaks down and magic numbers vanish in favor of stron ... more
Quasar X ray link to black hole environment found to evolve over cosmic time
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2025
Astronomers using new X ray data have found evidence that the structure of matter around supermassive black holes has changed over billions of years, challenging a quasar relationship that has been ... more