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A perfectly balanced atom just broke one of nuclear physics’ biggest rules
For many years, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion" were found mainly in isotopes packed with extra neutrons. These unusual regions of the nuclear chart are places where the normal structure of atomic nuclei suddenly stops following the expected rules. Scientists also used TRIPLEX, an instrument designed to measure extremely short lifetimes that last only trillionths of a second.
