{"id":182798,"date":"2024-02-16T01:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-nuclei-can-help-shape-our-understanding-of-fundamental-science-on-earth-and-in-the-cosmos"},"modified":"2024-02-16T01:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:25:04","slug":"new-nuclei-can-help-shape-our-understanding-of-fundamental-science-on-earth-and-in-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-nuclei-can-help-shape-our-understanding-of-fundamental-science-on-earth-and-in-the-cosmos","title":{"rendered":"New nuclei can help shape our understanding of fundamental science on Earth and in the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nuclei-can-help-shape-our-understanding-of-fundamental-science-on-earth-and-in-the-cosmos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/isotopes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">isotopes <\/a>\u2014known as thulium-182, thulium-183, ytterbium-186, ytterbium-187 and lutetium-190\u2014are <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.132.072501\">reported<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>These represent the first batch of new isotopes made at FRIB, a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, or DOE-SC, supporting the mission of the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics. The new isotopes show that FRIB is nearing the creation of nuclear specimens that currently only exist when ultradense celestial bodies known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron stars<\/a> crash into each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth. The isotopes \u2014known as thulium-182, thulium-183, ytterbium-186, ytterbium-187 and lutetium-190\u2014are reported in the journal Physical Review Letters. These represent the first batch of new isotopes made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182798","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=182798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}