External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
The inaugural MSUFCU Arts Power Up Art Residency brought internationally-acclaimed artist Abel Korinsky to MSU to create an installation that explores the nature of existence. This program gives MSU artists, researchers, and visiting artists an extraordinary opportunity to discover side-by-side. Abel's residency was powered by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), the MSU Museum, MSU’s art, science and culture collaborative the STEAMpower Project, and Arts MSU.
An international team of researchers, led by scientists from FRIB, uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational gamma-ray astronomy. The discovery came after the team used an innovative new experimental method to investigate uncertain nuclear properties of an unstable isotope.
“Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion,” a collaboration between Michigan State University’s Wharton Center and FRIB and national dance company Dance Exchange, returned to the stage for the first time since its 2022 premiere on 14 November at Wharton’s Cobb Great Hall.
A large research collaboration, led by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany, united an international team of scientists to gain deeper insights into the role of nuclear shell effects in the heaviest elements. The team included FRIB’s Witek Nazarewicz and Alyssa Gaiser.
In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration – led by Alexandra Gade, professor of physics at FRIB and in MSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy and FRIB scientific director – used world-class instrumentation at FRIB to study the exotic nuclide, or rare isotope, chromium-62.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams have achieved a significant milestone in the study of isotopes. In their latest experiment, they accelerated a high-power uranium beam. They delivered a record 10.4 kilowatts of continuous beam power to a target. This breakthrough is highly relevant in current scenarios when researchers worldwide require a uranium primary beam to study rare isotopes.
A team of scientists, including researchers from FRIB, published an article in Nature Physics on how research on neutron-rich nuclei shows that in the so-called islands of inversion, they are deformed rather than spherical in their ground states.
Kyle Leach, adjunct associate professor of physics at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), was honored with the 2025 Francis M. Pipkin Award by the American Physical Society (APS).
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams have achieved a significant milestone in the study of isotopes. In their latest experiment, they accelerated a high-power uranium beam. They delivered a record 10.4 kilowatts of continuous beam power to a target. This breakthrough is highly relevant in current scenarios when researchers worldwide require a uranium primary beam to study rare isotopes.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams have achieved a significant milestone in the study of isotopes. In their latest experiment, they accelerated a high-power uranium beam. They delivered a record 10.4 kilowatts of continuous beam power to a target. This breakthrough is highly relevant in current scenarios when researchers worldwide require a uranium primary beam to study rare isotopes.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “Making difficult quantum many-body calculations possible” about the introduction of a new approach called wavefunction matching that helps solve difficult quantum many-body calculations. Authors of the publication are from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. Each year, scientists publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams have achieved a significant milestone in the study of isotopes. In their latest experiment, they accelerated a high-power uranium beam. They delivered a record 10.4 kilowatts of continuous beam power to a target. This breakthrough is highly relevant in current scenarios when researchers worldwide require a uranium primary beam to study rare isotopes.
