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MY RESEARCH BLOG

Here you can find some science highlights from my own research and also some explanations of nuclear astrophysics concepts for non-experts. Enjoy!

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...

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To be fair, many of my colleagues are working day and night trying to figure out exactly how supernovae explode, so I won’t claim it’s a...

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...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. #nuclear...

You may have heard the word “isotope”. It sometimes comes up in discussions with a medical doctor, where an isotope can be used for...

The majority of radioactive nuclei undergo beta-decay, a process in which a neutron is transformed into a proton, or vice versa. The...

A large number of nuclear reactions take place in supernova explosions. During the explosion, a shockwave moves from the inner parts of...

Article appeared in JPhys+ blog The field of Nuclear Astrophysics is an exciting field that brings together scientists from many...

This week the SuN group is running an experiment with a stable rubidium-85 beam at ReA3. ReA3 is the re-accelerator facility at NSCL that...