{"id":82791,"date":"2018-09-18T18:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/incredible-strength-of-nuclear-pasta-revealed-in-new-simulations"},"modified":"2018-09-18T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:42:26","slug":"incredible-strength-of-nuclear-pasta-revealed-in-new-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/incredible-strength-of-nuclear-pasta-revealed-in-new-simulations","title":{"rendered":"Incredible strength of \u2018nuclear pasta\u2019 revealed in new simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2017\/10\/16\/236951739491828361\/1024x576_MP4_236951739491828361.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology say the new simulations could help us better understand major astrophysical phenomena, such as gravitational waves.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The strength of the neutron star crust, especially the bottom of the crust, is relevant to a large number of astrophysics problems, but isn\u2019t well understood,\u2019 says Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University.<\/p>\n<p>Neutron stars are the product of supernovas, and are extremely dense.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6182507\/Nuclear-pasta-strongest-known-material-universe-simulations-confirm.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6182507\/Nucl...nfirm.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology say the new simulations could help us better understand major astrophysical phenomena, such as gravitational waves. \u2018The strength of the neutron star crust, especially the bottom of the crust, is relevant to a large number of astrophysics problems, but isn\u2019t well understood,\u2019 says Matthew Caplan, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791","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=82791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}