{"id":199164,"date":"2024-11-09T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/what-exactly-happens-when-the-nucleus-of-an-atom-splits-in-two-science-just-found-out"},"modified":"2024-11-09T22:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T04:23:51","slug":"what-exactly-happens-when-the-nucleus-of-an-atom-splits-in-two-science-just-found-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/what-exactly-happens-when-the-nucleus-of-an-atom-splits-in-two-science-just-found-out","title":{"rendered":"What exactly happens when the nucleus of an atom splits in two? Science just found out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-exactly-happens-when-the-nucleus-of-an-atom-splits-in-two-science-just-found-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades, yet some of its secrets have remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest puzzles? What exactly happens when an atom\u2019s nucleus splits apart at its \u201cneck rupture\u201d point.<\/p>\n<p>Aurel Bulgac, a physics professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Washington<\/a>, has been delving into this very question. He and his team set out to simulate the intricate particle dance during this critical moment of fission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades, yet some of its secrets have remained elusive. One of the biggest puzzles? What exactly happens when an atom\u2019s nucleus splits apart at its \u201cneck rupture\u201d point. Aurel Bulgac, a physics professor at the University of Washington, has been delving into this very question. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199164","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}