{"id":223820,"date":"2025-10-23T04:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-unlock-secrets-of-stellar-alchemy-yielding-new-insights-into-golds-cosmic-origins"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:20:20","slug":"physicists-unlock-secrets-of-stellar-alchemy-yielding-new-insights-into-golds-cosmic-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-unlock-secrets-of-stellar-alchemy-yielding-new-insights-into-golds-cosmic-origins","title":{"rendered":"Physicists unlock secrets of stellar alchemy, yielding new insights into gold\u2019s cosmic origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-unlock-secrets-of-stellar-alchemy-yielding-new-insights-into-golds-cosmic-origins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT\u2019s nuclear physicists have published three discoveries in one paper explaining key details. The results can help scientists come up with new models to describe the stellar processes that give us heavy elements, as well as make better predictions about the expanding landscape of exotic nuclei.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/l24v-5m31\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT\u2019s nuclear physicists have published three discoveries in one paper explaining key details. The results can help scientists come up with new models to describe the stellar processes that give us heavy elements, as well [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223820","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=223820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}