An international team of researchers has systematically measured the β-decay half-lives of 40 nuclei near calcium-54, ...

The red ball, blue star and black square represent the corresponding results of Rn, Ra and Th isotopes, respectively. In the shell model, the neutron number N=126 is regarded as a neutron magic number ...

Magic numbers usually keep nuclei stable and spherical, but radioactive isotopes have revealed “Islands of Inversion,” where this structure flips and nuclei distort. Until now, all known islands were ...