You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a critical power source for modern space missions due to their high energy density, long life cycle ...

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The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

China’s latest advance with its so‑called artificial sun has pushed fusion plasma into a regime many physicists long treated ...

Plans to deliver the first-ever precision measurements of some of the rarest and most unstable atomic nuclei could reshape our understanding of ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...