The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.

Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors (SNSPDs), originally designed for detecting photons, can also accurately detect high-energy protons. This unexpected finding ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a highly sensitive sensor ...

Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

While entanglement has been demonstrated in very small particles, University of Chicago scientists are thinking big, ...

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In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...

Physicists have detected the highest-energy 'ghost particle' ever felt on Earth, with nearly 100 times more energy than any ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

Lightweight, robust, radiation-resilient photovoltaics are critical technologies for many aerospace applications. OPV cells ...