A team of researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) has discovered that cobalt-70 isotopes form different nuclear shapes when their energy levels ...

To reach its final form, an atomic nucleus typically moves through a string of different radioactive isotopes, collecting more and more neutrons as it goes. At first, scientists thought there were ...

Isotopes of elements are like siblings. They have the same number of protons and electrons but a different number of neutrons than the primary form of the element. This difference in neutrons ...

Scientists have measured the half-lives of five never-before-seen isotopes in a first demonstration of a research facility that will help probe the nuclear structures of elements (Phys. Rev. Lett ...

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The newfound uranium, called uranium-214, is an isotope, or a variant of the element, with 30 more neutrons than protons, one fewer neutron than the next-lightest known uranium isotope.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis reported the first observations of a new form of fluorine, the isotope 13 F, described in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The most abundant form of oxygen, 16 O, is doubly magic, because of its eight protons and eight neutrons. Oxygen-28, with 8 protons and 20 neutrons, has long been predicted to be doubly magic, too.

Researchers in Japan create uranium-241, the second-heaviest isotope of the element. ... A nucleus with 152 neutrons is predicted to form a specific structure that should enhance nuclear stability.

An isotope of fluorine with one neutron less than the element’s stable form (fluorine-19), it decays to create positrons, which can annihilate electrons to create light. Fluorine-18 has proved vital ...