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Starts With A Bang!
May 15
Our best idea for the “origin of gold” doesn’t add up
In 2017, we detected gold being forged in a…
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Starts With A Bang!
Dec 7, 2023
What was it like when the first elements formed?
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were…
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Ethan Siegel
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Starts With A Bang!
Nov 15, 2021
The 8 ways that all the elements in the Universe are made
There are over 100 known elements in the…
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Mar 9, 2021
No, Today’s Stars Are Not The Same As Yesterday’s Stars
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has…
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Ethan Siegel
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Jun 10, 2020
Lithium Mystery Solved: It’s Exploding Stars, Not The Big Bang Or Cosmic Rays
The origin of the 3rd…
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Jun 1, 2020
This Is Where The 10 Most Common Elements In The Universe Come From
In order, they go: hydrogen…
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Starts With A Bang!
Nov 21, 2019
This Is Why Three Of The Lightest Elements Are So Cosmically Rare
Helium and carbon are made copiously…
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May 31, 2019
Humanity Is Thoughtlessly Wasting An Essential, Non-Renewable Resource: Helium
What took hundreds of…
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Starts With A Bang!
May 1, 2019
Dark Matter Search Discovers A Spectacular Bonus: The Longest-Lived Unstable Element Ever
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Starts With A Bang!
Feb 20, 2019
What Was It Like When The Universe Made Its Heaviest Elements?
The heaviest elements in the periodic…
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