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 ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Radiation is still leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after the 2011 tsunami-related meltdown in Japan, making any damage assessment dangerous for both humans and machines. Instead, high ...

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 ...