Newsday
Professor Duncan Brown on Major Discovery of Origins of Gold
Tuesday, October 17, 2017,
By Sawyer Kamman
After聽 a team of scientists detected a collision of two neutron stars, they now know the origins of heavy metals like gold a聽 platinum. Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, talks to Newsday about this disovery.
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