Abstract

In what you might call a smashing success, physicists have chiseled out an atomic nucleus laden with a record eight more protons than neutrons. The new nucleus, nickel-48, self-destructs in a fraction of a second, but it may help researchers study a form of radioactive decay that they have long sought but not yet observed.

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