Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

Physicists Solve a 50-Year Mystery About a Critically Important Molecule

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum technology, the researchers say.

Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. Source