{"id":613898,"date":"2019-05-01T13:14:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190501131432.htm"},"modified":"2019-05-01T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:14:32","slug":"nuclear-magic-numbers-collapse-beyond-the-doubly-magic-nickel-78-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=613898","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear &#8216;magic numbers&#8217; collapse beyond the doubly magic nickel 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have demonstrated that nickel 78, a neutron-rich &#8216;doubly magic&#8217; isotope of nickel with 28 protons and 50 neutrons, still maintains a spherical shape that allows it to be relatively stable despite the large imbalance in the number of protons and neutrons. They also discovered a surprise, with the observations from the experiment suggesting that nickel 78 may be the lightest nucleus with 50 neutrons to have a &#8216;magic&#8217; nature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have demonstrated that nickel 78, a neutron-rich &#8216;doubly magic&#8217; isotope of nickel with 28 protons and 50 neutrons, still maintains a spherical shape that allows it to be relatively stable despite the large imbalance in the number of protons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613899,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613898\/revisions\/613899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}