Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner
Disciplinary bias and a stew of other prejudices helped deny the physicist Lise Meitner a share of the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Isotope ratios yield clues to element synthesis
Measurements could help identify the origin of meteorite grains that formed before our solar system and improve models of nova explosions
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Mechanical oscillations cause iron to become transparent to gamma rays
“Acoustically induced transparency” created by vibrating solid absorber
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Mirror-symmetry violation discovered in ground states of strontium and bromine isotopes
Surprise discovery made while investigating astronomical X-ray bursts
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Forbidden nuclear transition sheds light on how some stars die
Laboratory experiment suggests that intermediate-mass stars expire via thermonuclear explosions
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Brookhaven chosen to host major US nuclear physics facility
Due to start by 2030, the Electron-Ion Collider will probe the strong nuclear force and the role of gluons in nucleons and nuclei
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Neutron dripline extended to fluorine and neon isotopes
Sodium isotopes could exist with more than 28 neutrons, study reveals
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Electron scattering experiment is first to point to a small proton radius
“Too early to tell” if decade-old mystery has been solved
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Experts point to Russia as source of radioactive ruthenium leak
Explosion may have occurred while reprocessing spent fuel for a neutrino experiment
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‘Cold case’ of cold fusion reopened by Google-funded scientists
Still no evidence for cold fusion, but researchers say controversial phenomenon may be real
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