Scientists Discovered a Nuclear Island That Flies in the Face of Traditional Chemistry

Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...
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Record-breaking Rf-252: Researchers produce shortest-lived superheavy nucleus and measure its subsequent decay

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the ...
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Land ahoy! — Experiments at GSI/FAIR reveal the shoreline of the island of stability of superheavy elements

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the ...
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New fusion reactions could lead to long-lasting superheavy nuclei with unique properties

In nuclear physics, the “island of stability ” refers to a hypothesized group of heavier transuranium isotopes, predicted to be significantly more stable than their neighboring isotopes, with expected ...