New Research: Photon emission of exotic nuclei in stars
Atomic nuclei are complex little beasts. If, however, you are curious enough to look closely, you’ll see that these tiny constituents of...
Isotopes in the cosmos
I mentioned the basics of isotopes and why they are useful in our lives in a previous post. Here I wanted to talk about why isotopes...
Why are we here? Or "An impossible nuclear reaction!"
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Why is there so much Iron in the Universe?
I get asked this question a lot: Why is there so much iron in the Universe? If you look at the big picture, our Universe, our Solar...
Atomic age began 75 years ago with the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. #nuclear...
NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS AND STELLAR EXPLOSIONS
We live in an era where multi-messenger astronomical research is becoming more and more common. This means that we can study the same...