Researchers Discover New Iron Isomer

Isomers are very important to scientists mostly because their ground state atomic nuclei can provide with valuable information regarding interactions between the protons and neutrons present inside the nucleus. Some isomers may only live for a few fractions of a second while others, for milli... [ read more >> ]

Image of a LEBIT ion trap (the bottle cap in the lower part of the image is for scale)

Image comment: Image of a LEBIT ion trap (the bottle cap in the lower part of the image is for scale)
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Image of a LEBIT ion trap (the bottle cap in the lower part of the image is for scale)