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, ...

For more than 40 years, physicist John Conway has led research in high-energy particle physics, a field driven by a simple yet profound goal: to understand what the universe is made of and how it ...

Students heading to class in the Duane Physics and Astrophysics building now have a glimpse into the world’s largest particle detectors in a new mural painted by Veronica Keff. A senior in ...

Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student Kyungmin Park is helping scientists make faster, smarter decisions about which particle collisions to study at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics ...

One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations. By Alan Blinder Seven of the nine universities that the White House initially approached about a plan to steer more federal money ...

Scientists from the CMS collaboration at CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to understanding how matter behaved in the very early ...

For these physicists at CU Boulder, searching for the unknown is a matter of speed. Over the last decade, researchers on campus, including dozens of graduate and undergraduate students, have taken ...

Just like the universe depends on the fundamental laws of physics, Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Physics depends on its graduate student teaching assistants. This year, the department ...

For the first time, researchers using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have tested a novel approach to search for signs of ...