University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens at the extremes of neutron and proton numbers, in search of where the ...

Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually produce especially stable and spherical nuclei.

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will be the first to produce and analyse hundreds of isotopes crucial to physics. One of nuclear physicists’ top wishes is about to come true. After a decades-long ...