{"id":165299,"date":"2023-06-07T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/sodium-on-steroids-a-nuclear-physics-breakthrough-thought-to-be-impossible"},"modified":"2023-06-07T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:23:18","slug":"sodium-on-steroids-a-nuclear-physics-breakthrough-thought-to-be-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/sodium-on-steroids-a-nuclear-physics-breakthrough-thought-to-be-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Sodium on Steroids: A Nuclear Physics Breakthrough Thought To Be Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vl0_DElyTZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear physicists at RIKEN have successfully created an extremely neutron-rich isotope of sodium, <sup>39 <\/sup>Na, previously predicted by many atomic nuclei models to be non-existent. This discovery has significant implications for our understanding of atomic nuclei structure and the astrophysical processes that form heavier elements on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuclear physicists have made the most neutron-rich form of sodium yet, which will help reveal more about the complex world of nuclei.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Physicists at RIKEN have created an exceptionally neutron-rich sodium isotope, <sup>39 <\/sup>Na, which was previously believed to be impossible. This breakthrough has major implications for understanding atomic nuclei structure and the creation of Earth\u2019s heavier elements.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear physicists at RIKEN have successfully created an extremely neutron-rich isotope of sodium, 39 Na, previously predicted by many atomic nuclei models to be non-existent. This discovery has significant implications for our understanding of atomic nuclei structure and the astrophysical processes that form heavier elements on Earth. Nuclear physicists have made the most neutron-rich form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165299","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}