The key is to embed a radium atom in a molecule, which contains and intensifies the activities of its electrons, explains ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

Scientists have developed a new method that can help them probe inside atom’s nucleus. Developed by researchers at MIT, the ...

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Effective theorists: Sonia Bacca (left), Bijaya Acharya (centre) and Joanna Sobczyk. (Courtesy: Sabrina Hopp/Angelika Stehle) The interaction between an electron and a calcium-40 nucleus has been ...

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Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...

At the subatomic level, particles interact not only with one another, but with the quantum fields inherent to space, both owing to the presence of charged sources and also to the quantum vacuum of ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...

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