Fruit of their labor: Pear-shaped nuclei found

By Tia GhoseLiveScienceA few heavy, unstable atoms have pear-shaped nuclei, research suggests.The lopsided nuclei, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, could be good candidates for researchers looking for new types of physics beyond the reigning explanation for the bits of matter that make up the universe (called the Standard Model), said study author Peter Butler, a physicist at the Univers...