{"id":241539,"date":"2026-07-25T04:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/magnetic-clues-inside-atomic-nuclei-help-explain-how-elements-form-in-stars"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:16:28","slug":"magnetic-clues-inside-atomic-nuclei-help-explain-how-elements-form-in-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/magnetic-clues-inside-atomic-nuclei-help-explain-how-elements-form-in-stars","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic clues inside atomic nuclei help explain how elements form in stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-clues-inside-atomic-nuclei-help-explain-how-elements-form-in-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A scientific team led by Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, has identified the origin of a mysterious excess of low-energy gamma rays emitted by the nucleus zinc-70. They found that the excess is caused by magnetic transitions within the nucleus. The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10758-3\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMagnetic Character of the Low-Energy Enhancement in <sup>70 <\/sup>Zn,\u201d<\/a> published in <i>Nature<\/i>, sheds light on a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics and has far-reaching implications for astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration included scientists from 25 institutions in the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, Norway and South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientific team led by Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, has identified the origin of a mysterious excess of low-energy gamma rays emitted by the nucleus zinc-70. They found that the excess is caused by magnetic transitions within the nucleus. The study, \u201cMagnetic Character of the Low-Energy Enhancement in 70 Zn,\u201d published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241539","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=241539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}