Physicists figured out a recipe to make titanium stardust on Earth
Long ago—before humans, before Earth, before even the sun—there was stardust. In time, the young worlds of the solar system would eat up much of that dust as those bodies ballooned into the sun, planets, and moons we know today. But some of the dust survived, pristine, in its original form, locked in places like ancient meteorites. Scientists call this…