Atomic Scientists Set 'Doomsday Clock'
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Scientists just found a bizarre atomic glitch where it shouldn’t exist
For years, physicists have mapped the stability of atomic nuclei with remarkable confidence. The periodic table, with its neat rows and columns, hides a more chaotic reality underneath, where protons and neutrons cling together through a delicate balance of forces.
Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures within specially designed, ultrathin bilayer 2D materials.