Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United ...
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A team of researchers describe neutrinos in a new paper as “the least understood fundamental particles of nature”, but have also helped change that by using radioactive beryllium embedded in ...
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making them larger than typical atomic nuclei. To do this, Smolsky and his team measured radioactive beryllium as it decayed into lithium, a process called electron capture. When this happens ...