{"id":132966,"date":"2021-12-23T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/research-team-creates-the-worlds-lightest-isotope-of-magnesium-to-date"},"modified":"2021-12-23T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:25:20","slug":"research-team-creates-the-worlds-lightest-isotope-of-magnesium-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/research-team-creates-the-worlds-lightest-isotope-of-magnesium-to-date","title":{"rendered":"Research team creates the world\u2019s lightest isotope of magnesium to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-creates-the-worlds-lightest-isotope-of-magnesium-to-date2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan State University (MSU) has helped create the world\u2019s lightest version\u2014or isotope\u2014of magnesium to date.<\/p>\n<p>Forged at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU, or NSCL, this isotope is so unstable that it falls apart before scientists can measure it directly. Yet this isotope that isn\u2019t keen on existing can help researchers better understand how the atoms that define our existence are made.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers from Peking University in China, the team included scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, MSU, and other institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan State University (MSU) has helped create the world\u2019s lightest version\u2014or isotope\u2014of magnesium to date. Forged at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU, or NSCL, this isotope is so unstable that it falls apart before scientists can measure it directly. Yet this isotope that isn\u2019t keen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}