<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/a-doubly-magic-discovery.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero/><unit>Faculty &amp; Staff,Research,College of Natural Science,Physics &amp; Astronomy</unit><pubDate>11/29/2021</pubDate><title>A doubly magic discovery</title><description><p>A team of researchers, including scientists Ryan Ringle and Alec Hamaker from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU), have solved the case of zirconium-80s missing mass. Their findings were recently published in the journal <em>Nature Physics</em>.</p></description><author/><hero-image><img src="https://natsci.msu.edu/sites/_natsci/cache/file/8342F22C-EDFC-4ED9-9ECBC992EB866EC9_newsarticlehero.png" alt="Hero image"/></hero-image><image><img src="https://natsci.msu.edu/sites/_natsci/cache/file/8342F22C-EDFC-4ED9-9ECBC992EB866EC9_medium.png" alt="Hero image"/></image><tags><tag>Nuclear physics</tag><tag>faculty</tag><tag>graduate students</tag><tag>rare isotopes</tag><tag>research</tag><tag>zirconium-80</tag></tags></item>