{"id":214982,"date":"2025-05-29T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cosmic-ray-research-helps-unravel-lithium-7-origin"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:18:08","slug":"cosmic-ray-research-helps-unravel-lithium-7-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cosmic-ray-research-helps-unravel-lithium-7-origin","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic ray research helps unravel lithium-7 origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-ray-research-helps-unravel-lithium-7-origin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The origin of lithium (Li), the third element of the periodic table, has long been shrouded in mystery. This element, commonly found in cosmic rays as two stable isotopes, <sup>6 <\/sup>Li and <sup>7 <\/sup>Li, is crucial to understanding the origins of the universe and the evolution of its chemical elements.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.201001\" target=\"_blank\">a recent study<\/a>, an international team of researchers used the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) aboard the International Space Station to measure the cosmic-ray fluxes of <sup>6 <\/sup>Li and <sup>7 <\/sup>Li based on data accumulated from May 2011 to October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Based on information from over 2 million nuclei amassed across 12 years, the team formulated a hypothesis that strengthens the case for one possible origin of lithium while challenging another previously accepted explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of lithium (Li), the third element of the periodic table, has long been shrouded in mystery. This element, commonly found in cosmic rays as two stable isotopes, 6 Li and 7 Li, is crucial to understanding the origins of the universe and the evolution of its chemical elements. In a recent study, an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214982","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=214982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}