A new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is set to discover thousands of never-before-seen isotopes. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, CC BY-ND Just a few hundred feet from where we are ...

For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure suddenly break down—were found mostly in neutron-rich isotopes. In these ...

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ASP Isotopes was up sharply on Thursday after the company successfully enriched Ytterbium-176 (via its “quantum laser enrichment” process) months ahead of schedule. The isotope and high-assay ...