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• Research Highlights | 04 July 2017

  Silica puzzle

  • Iulia Georgescu

• Letter | 01 December 2015

  Short-lived ²⁴⁴Pu points to compact binary mergers as sites for heavy r-process nucleosynthesis

  Stars could produce our heavy elements through a rapid neutron-capture process during a supernova or merger of binary stars, but which is it? A study of ²⁴⁴Pu reveals that a rare event with a high yield is more likely, favouring mergers.

  • Kenta Hotokezaka
  • , Tsvi Piran
  •  & Michael Paul