A star’s colossal flare has revealed an unexpected origin for some of the universe’s heaviest elements, including gold and platinum. In a stunning breakthrough, scientists linked a mysterious 2004 space signal to a magnetar flare that forged massive amounts of these elements—possibly explaining up to 10% of their presence in the galaxy. This new source [...] 
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