New scanning technology detects neutron and gamma-ray emissions from nuclear material
Read article: Tomography technique could help in the fight against nuclear terrorism
A century after “nuclear isomers” were discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák explore these long-lived, excited nuclear states
Read article: Celebrating a century of nuclear isomers
Precisely controlling nuclear excitations could aid the development of ultraprecise clocks as well as batteries that can store huge amounts of energy
Read article: Atomic nuclei go for a quantum swing
In this week’s podcast we chat about making new isotopes and what to do if you find a meteorite
Read article: The race to discover superheavy elements, a dinosaur killer and other visitors from outer space
Darmstadtium, copernicium and flerovium are under the microscope in Germany
Read article: New superheavy isotope and excited state could point the way to islands of stability
Contradictory results continue to puzzle nuclear physicists
Read article: There is no magic in having 32 neutrons, reveals study done at CERN
Breakthrough could help scientists create more superheavy elements
Read article: Bond distance of rare element einsteinium is measured
Nuclear physicist David Jenkins discovers the benefits of running a successful conference series for young scientists in an online format
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Our mission was to include young nuclear physicists wherever they were in the world’
High-precision magnetic microcalorimeter experiments could bring nuclear clocks a step closer
Read article: Physicists measure energy of lowest nuclear excited state
Penning trap enables the most precise measurement ever of the mass of a deuterium nucleus
Read article: Physicists pin down deuteron mass
