Nuclear footballs slow to turn into soccer balls
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It turns out atomic nuclei – the tiny soccer balls at the heart of the atoms that make us up – sometimes turn into footballs. With a small injection of energy they can become elongated shapes, as much as twice as long as they are wide. But new measurements of a special kind of calcium […]