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There Aldo Antognini's team generates so-called muonic helium-3, in which the two electrons of the helium atom are replaced by an elementary particle called a muon. This allows the nuclear radius to ...

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China confirms the first helium-rich gas supergiant in the Tarim Basin: Hetianhe rewrites the map of strategic resources.

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When theoretical physicists like myself say that we’re studying why the universe exists, we sound like philosophers. But new data collected by researchers using Japan’s Subaru telescope has revealed ...

Scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ions. Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered how solar activity affects ...