{"id":244133,"date":"2026-09-17T05:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/mysterious-gamma-rays-reveal-hidden-magnetism-inside-atomic-nuclei"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:24:20","slug":"mysterious-gamma-rays-reveal-hidden-magnetism-inside-atomic-nuclei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/mysterious-gamma-rays-reveal-hidden-magnetism-inside-atomic-nuclei","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Gamma Rays Reveal Hidden Magnetism Inside Atomic Nuclei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-gamma-rays-reveal-hidden-magnetism-inside-atomic-nuclei2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists have traced a decades-old gamma-ray mystery to hidden magnetic transitions inside atomic nuclei.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For decades, nuclear physicists have faced a puzzling question: why do some atomic nuclei release far more low-energy gamma rays than expected?<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), with contributions from scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), may finally provide the answer. Published in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em>, the research offers new insight into the inner workings of atomic nuclei and could have important implications for astrophysics, nuclear energy, national security, and nuclear forensics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have traced a decades-old gamma-ray mystery to hidden magnetic transitions inside atomic nuclei. For decades, nuclear physicists have faced a puzzling question: why do some atomic nuclei release far more low-energy gamma rays than expected? A new study led by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), with contributions from scientists at Lawrence Livermore [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244133","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=244133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}