Oct. 23 (UPI) --Scientists have for the first time identified a freshly forged heavy metal element inside a neutron star merger. The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the ...
An artist’s impression of strontium emerging from a neutron star merger. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser When massive neutron stars collide, they don’t only produce dazzling light, bursts of gamma rays, ...
Ladies and gentlemen, light your fuses. (SOUNDBITE OF FIREWORKS) WESTERVELT: Fire in the hole. Tonight, as you oooh and awe to brilliant reds and whites and blues bursting in air, you might wonder ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. There would be no bright and colorful fireworks without rocks and ...
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