We have other ways to "feel" the shape of atoms without seeing them, however. Last week physicists published a study in the journal Nature measuring the shape of the nucleus of a Radium-224 (Ra-224) ...

A radium atom and polyatomic molecule are held between the electrodes of an ion trap. Jayich’s team will use the radium molecule to search for time symmetry violation.

EVIDENCE of a convincing nature is rapidly accumulating to the effect that helium may be produced as a result of the disintegration of the radium atom. On the other hand, it has been suggested by ...

Researchers have combined the power of a super collider with techniques of laser spectroscopy to precisely measure a short-lived radioactive molecule, radium monofluoride, for the first time.

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have combined the power of a super collider with techniques of laser spectroscopy to precisely measure a short-lived radioactive molecule, radium monofluoride, for ...

In 1930 the three young men projected radium’s beta (high speed electrons) and gamma (penetrating X-rays) rays out of that mica window. Left for duplication were radium’s alpha particles, the ...

As a result, spectroscopy offers a way of determining whether a particle like the electron conforms to the Standard Model of particle physics. Radium monofluoride is a molecule of particular interest ...

In radium the β and γ rays appear only in the third change occurring in the radio-active matter which causes “excited activity,” i.e. in the fourth of the chain of radio-active products ...