{"id":180398,"date":"2024-01-13T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/decoding-the-universes-dna-breakthroughs-from-the-facility-for-rare-isotope-beams"},"modified":"2024-01-13T06:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T12:27:16","slug":"decoding-the-universes-dna-breakthroughs-from-the-facility-for-rare-isotope-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/decoding-the-universes-dna-breakthroughs-from-the-facility-for-rare-isotope-beams","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the Universe\u2019s DNA: Breakthroughs From the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decoding-the-universes-dna-breakthroughs-from-the-facility-for-rare-isotope-beams2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Department of Energy user facility helps probe questions from changes in the structure of nuclei to nuclear reactions that shape the Universe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) enables discoveries in the science of atomic nuclei, their role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-is-cosmology\/\">cosmos<\/a>, and the fundamental symmetries of nature. This <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-are-particle-accelerators\/\">accelerator facility<\/a> uses beams of short-lived <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-are-atomic-nuclei\/\">nuclei<\/a> not available elsewhere. Results from FRIB address questions such as the limits of the nuclear chart, the origin of the elements, and the reason for why there is more matter than <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-is-antimatter\/\">antimatter<\/a> in our Universe.<\/p>\n<p>In FRIB\u2019s first year, its measurements tackled the changes in the structure of the shortest-lived nuclei, exotic decay modes, nuclear reactions that affect cosmic events such as X-ray bursts, and processes in the crusts of <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-are-neutron-stars\/\">neutron stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Energy user facility helps probe questions from changes in the structure of nuclei to nuclear reactions that shape the Universe. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) enables discoveries in the science of atomic nuclei, their role in the cosmos, and the fundamental symmetries of nature. This accelerator facility uses beams of short-lived [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}