{"id":226022,"date":"2025-11-27T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/physicists-discover-brand-new-isotopes-of-heavy-rare-earth-elements"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:04:04","slug":"physicists-discover-brand-new-isotopes-of-heavy-rare-earth-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/physicists-discover-brand-new-isotopes-of-heavy-rare-earth-elements","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover Brand-New Isotopes of Heavy Rare-Earth Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-brand-new-isotopes-of-heavy-rare-earth-elements.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never-before-seen ratios of particles making up atomic nuclei have emerged in a landmark experiment involving the fragmentation of heavy elements.<\/p>\n<p>By breaking apart the nuclei of platinum, physicists led by Oleg Tarasov of Michigan State University have discovered new isotopes of rare-Earth elements thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium. It\u2019s an achievement that scientists believe will help them understand the properties of neutron-rich nuclei and the processes that forge new elements in the collision of neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>The work, the researchers say, also demonstrates the power of Michigan State University\u2019s recently completed Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which conducted its first experiment in June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never-before-seen ratios of particles making up atomic nuclei have emerged in a landmark experiment involving the fragmentation of heavy elements. By breaking apart the nuclei of platinum, physicists led by Oleg Tarasov of Michigan State University have discovered new isotopes of rare-Earth elements thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium. It\u2019s an achievement that scientists believe will help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226022","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}