Physicists Stunned: Lead-208’s Shape Just Broke a Fundamental Rule of Nuclear Physics
For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.
A Radioactive Molecule That Shouldn’t Exist – But Scientists Made It Happen
A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...
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Ion channels in the nervous system articles from across Nature Portfolio
Heat increases heart rate across vertebrates. Here, authors pinpoint a motif in the HCN4 channel that governs heat-driven heart rate acceleration and demonstrate its conserved role in other HCN ...
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High-Entropy Alloys: Assessing Atomic-Scale Mixing and Surface Passivation with Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN), Place Louis Pasteur 1, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium ...
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Heavy ions and quark-gluon plasma
To recreate conditions similar to those of the very early universe, powerful accelerators make head-on collisions between massive ions, such as gold or lead nuclei. In these heavy-ion collisions the ...
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Low Density Matter Physics
The Low Density Matter – Structure and Dynamics group of Professor Raimund Feifel is active in several areas of photon science as described below, involving some of the world’s foremost multi-particle ...
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Revealing an outward-facing open conformational state in a CLC Cl – /H + exchange transporter
Cells have transporter proteins on their surface to carry molecules in and out of the cell. For example, the CLC family of transporters move two chloride ions in one direction at the same time as ...