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0:49 minutes (1.11 MB)

Konrad Gelbke discusses the science potential of FRIB with Bill Dow, a reporter with DBusiness Magazine. Dow's article appears in the September/October issue and is available here: http://www.dbusiness.com/DBusiness/September-October-2009/Center-of-the-...

7:21 minutes (8.42 MB)

Andreas Stolz, NSCL assistant professor and collaborator on a Physical Review Letters paper published the week of November 5, 2007, discusses the significance of the direct observation of two-proton decay of iron-45, including the use of visual images as raw experimental data.

6:40 minutes (9.32 MB)

A ground state atomic nucleus can be something of a black box, masking subtle details about its structure behind the aggregate interplay of its protons and neutrons. This is one reason nuclear scientists are so keenly interested in isomers -- relatively long-lived excited-state nuclei that more easily give up their structural secrets to experimentalists. For years, gamma ray spectroscopy has been one of the only reliable means of studying isomers. But now scientists have a new tool at their disposal.

1:40 minutes (2.3 MB)

Konrad Gelbke discusses the link between investments in basic science and subsequent technical innovation and economic growth in an interview with Bill Dow, a reporter with DBusiness Magazine. Dow's article appears in the September/October issue and is available here: http://www.dbusiness.com/DBusiness/September-October-2009/Center-of-the-...