The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...

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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, ...