Fundamental question on how life started solved

R&D Mag – For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with U.S. colleagues, physicists from the Univ. of Bonn and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have been able to calculate this legendary carbon nucleus, solving a problem that has kept science guessing for more than 50 years.

“Attempts to...