05/08/2025 An international team, including ORIGINS researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has discovered a new island of asymmetric nuclear fission on the chart of nuclides. A narrow range of krypton isotopes (Z=36) drives a mode of asymmetric nuclear fission for nuclei in the region of mercury isotopes (Z=80). The results improve our understanding of the origin of elements in the Universe, as well as processes in terrestrial energy production and reactor safety.
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05/05/2025 Biological patterns are essential for many processes of life. During cell division, for example, the distribution of certain proteins in the cell determines the location where the parent cell splits. An unanswered question hitherto has been how bacteria manage to keep pattern formation stable even though the protein composition in the cell can fluctuate due to changing environmental conditions. A team led by LMU biophysicist and ORIGINS scientist Professor Erwin Frey and Suckjoon Jun, Professor at the University of California, San Diego, has found the solution: One of the…
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