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A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium-3 is ...

Scientists at the world’s largest stellarator facility, Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), have successfully generated high-energy helium-3 ions for the first time. “In the world’s largest stellarator facility, ...

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The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is getting bigger. The giant particle accelerator—sometimes referred to as an atom smasher—causes collisions between beams of high-energy particles to study their ...

The latest observations from Low Earth Orbit with the International Space Station provide further evidence of spectral hardening and softening of cosmic ray particles. The CALorimetric Electron ...