Nuclear isomers are crucial probes for studying the structure of nuclei. Unlike chemical isomers—which have the same chemical formula but different arrangements of atoms—nuclear isomers are nuclei ...
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The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.