Dongsheng Li

The brain of a person with Parkinson's disease works like an orchestra where the conductor either freezes or waves the baton off-beat. Medications don't help everyone, so doctors turn to stimulation — weak electrical pulses that restore the rhythm.

Two nuclei with the same number of particles but different neutron skin shapes collide at speeds close to the speed of light. Ruthenium-96 and zirconium-96 are like twins, one with a slightly thicker coat. This difference changes how particles carry charge in the fireball of the collision.