physics - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Tue, 02 May 2023 18:04:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png physics - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Treasures: Natural nuclear reactors https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/19/treasures-natural-nuclear-reactors/ Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:45:50 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1733 I don’t know how other people are taught, but for a long time I thought that nuclear reactors generated energy through some borderline-mystical atomic process that I could never really comprehend. And that’s partly true. But if you skip the details of how fission actually works, its role in a power plant is actually pretty… Read More »Treasures: Natural nuclear reactors

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]]> 1733 Treasures: Stellar Nucleosynthesis https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/01/treasures-stellar-nucleosynthesis/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:25:41 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1570 Most of the things in our “Treasures” series are living organisms. I think this is partly because lots of living organisms are easy to identify with: they exist on a scale similar to ours and are easy to categorize as discrete entities. Phenomena are a little harder to sell, for the most part. Stellar nucleosynthesis has… Read More »Treasures: Stellar Nucleosynthesis

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