Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Detecting irradiated food

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Quick Advert: Tomorrow (Wednesday 19th May), a free public physics lecture is being given in Lecture Theatre M at the University of Surrey...

Sunday, 9 May 2010

What if everyone were a nucleus?

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In a series of tweets this evening Jim Al-Khalili pointed out that there has been a small disagreement between him in his Atom series and ...

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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Nuclear Physics and the Election

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I've not blogged at all about the forthcoming election. Nuclear physics is a pretty minor issue in the election, but not completely non...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Edinburgh

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Well, to follow up the last post, I did go to the hat shop, and now have a nice grey trilby and a black bowler. I also did attend Jim Al-Kh...

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Sunday, 18 April 2010

In Edinburgh

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I'm in Edinburgh for the annual Institute of Physics Nuclear Physics Conference. It's partly an excuse for everyone in the UK nucle...

Friday, 16 April 2010

Nuclear Power Quiz

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From CNN, a nuclear power quiz. I got 9 / 10 :-) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/31/nuclear.power.quiz/index.html

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

New element!

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A paper, just published in Physical Review Letters , has announced the first observation of element 117. This element, which will only be n...

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