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Physicists peer inside an atom’s nucleus with a new molecule-based method: An alternative to massive particle colliders, the approach could reveal insights into the universe’s starting ingredients

MIT physicists developed a way to probe inside an atom’s nucleus, using the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule. They plan to map the distribution of forces inside a radium nucleus, which could help to explain why we see more matter than antimatter in the universe.

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