S. N. Axani et. al. How do you find out what’s inside a building if you can’t go in? It’s a question that’s surprisingly relevant in areas like disaster relief, when being able to see inside a ...

It sounds like the setup to a nerdy joke: “What did the physicists say when they saw a neutrino bump into a nucleus? Finally!” In a study, published August 3rd in Science, researchers from the Oak ...

At any given moment, the Earth's atmosphere is showered with high-energy cosmic rays that have been blasted from supernovae and other astrophysical phenomena far beyond the Solar System. When cosmic ...

Companies enter into join agreement to develop technology for both civilian and military markets Sceptor Industries of Kansas City and Sarnoff Corporation of Princeton have announced a joint project ...

Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like - by observing neutrons ...

To get a look at science’s coolest experiments, you have to dive to the bottom of the ocean, spelunk in an abandoned mine shaft, or trek to the frozen Antarctic. That’s where you’ll find huge networks ...

Experimenting in the world of particle physics probably brings to mind large, expensive pieces of equipment like particle accelerators, or at least exotic elements or isotopes that most of us can’t ...

The past century has generated some creative ideas for tracking particles. Hans had been waiting in the darkened room for 45 minutes. It was a dull part of his day, but acclimating his eyes was a ...

Modern manufacturing techniques frequently require clean environments designed, constructed, and maintained to facilitate the highest production yields possible while also meeting predictable ...

At every moment, subatomic particles stream in unfathomable numbers through your body. Each second, about 100 billion neutrinos from the sun pass through your thumbnail, and you’re bathed in a rain of ...

Physicists have designed a pocket-sized cosmic ray muon detector to track these ghostly particles. The detector can be made with common electrical parts, and when turned on, it lights up and counts ...