Walk into any modern hospital, and you’ll find a medical imaging department. Medical imaging uses x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and other arcane-sounding methods like positron emission ...

Scientists have received the first transmissions from a muon detector placed 1 km underground in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory. The muon detector records the amount of cosmic radiation ...

High-energy physics is facing its greatest crisis ever. The Standard Model is complete, as all the particles our most successful physics theories have predicted have been discovered. The Large Hadron ...

A cosmic rain of ocean-penetrating, high-energy muon particles likely caused the extinction of a Pleistocene-era mega-shark, new “slam dunk” evidence suggests. The authors of a forthcoming paper in ...

A 100-watt laser power could create a megawatt nuclear fusion generator. This would provide a total energy gain of more than ten thousand. It would have deuterium-tritium as fuel. It would use a novel ...

What exactly has been achieved here? As described in a new paper published in Nature, what the Japanese and French research team have discovered is a large secret space hidden within the Great Pyramid ...

Every second of every day, muons — tiny, electron-like particles — are raining down on the planet. Parted from the atmosphere through cosmic radiation, most pass through the earth like ghosts, never ...

The prehistoric shark megalodon became extinct more than 2 million years ago. Findings of a new study now suggest that a supernova may have led to the extinction of the marine behemoth. Study ...

[Sebastian Tomczak] was borrowing a homeade muon detector from his friend, and managed to hook it up to his computer through an Arduino. The detector itself uses 3 fluorescent tubes to detect ...