Rice University Physicist Christopher Tunnell (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Rice University

Rice University Physicist Christopher Tunnell (1 of 2)

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Rice University physicist Christopher Tunnell at the XENON1T experiment in Italy. The collaboration discovered that xenon 124 has the longest half-life ever measured in a material. The element's half-life is many orders of magnitude greater than the current age of the universe.

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Christopher Tunnell/Rice University

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