A black rock from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is full of cosmic mysteries. Researchers at the HZDR in Dresden have found radioactive atoms from space within it—and thereby determined the age of an ancient event: The last rare cosmic spectacle in our galactic neighborhood occurred at least 100 million years ago.
How was the carbon we are made of formed? Deep underground in Dresden, a young research team at the HZDR is trying to answer this age-old question - with a particle accelerator, high-tech measuring equipment and a laboratory in the rock.
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