{"id":218116,"date":"2025-07-17T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-discover-a-new-magic-number-that-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-nuclear-physics"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:19:10","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-magic-number-that-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-nuclear-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/scientists-discover-a-new-magic-number-that-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-nuclear-physics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a New \u201cMagic Number\u201d That Could Rewrite the Rules of Nuclear Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-new-magic-number-that-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-nuclear-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear structure and the forces shaping the universe\u2019s rarest atoms. In nuclear physics, \u201cmagic numbers\u201d refer to certain quantities of protons or neutrons that make an atomic nucleus sig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have discovered that silicon-22 reveals a new proton magic number offering critical insights into nuclear structure and the forces shaping the universe\u2019s rarest atoms. In nuclear physics, \u201cmagic numbers\u201d refer to certain quantities of protons or neutrons that make an atomic nucleus sig<\/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-218116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218116","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=218116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}