In our daily lives, the sun seems constant and quiet, sedately shining at a steady pace. But looks can be deceiving: our star can also blast out powerful solar storms, huge explosions of energy and ...

The issue of alien subatomic particles, i.e., radiation from space, potentially affecting chips is again making rounds in the trade media amid a recent paper from Vanderbilt University's Bharat Bhuva ...

The nuclei that exist inside atoms of elements readily found in nature — such as carbon, oxygen, aluminum, iron, copper and gold — consist of fixed combinations of protons and neutrons. But if these ...

An experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the United States provides new insights into the strong interaction that holds neutrons and protons together inside atomic nuclei 1.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing oxygen and neon atoms into other atoms of their own kind as part of its ATLAS experiment. The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure ...

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum interference—a wavelike interaction between particles related to the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement—occurring between two different kinds ...

East Lansing — Michigan State University celebrated the opening of the world's most powerful heavy-ion accelerator Monday, allowing researchers to create and study new rare isotopes. User experiments ...

Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. When you hear the term “radioactive” you likely think “bad ...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

The CAMECA IMS 1280 belongs to a new generation of SIMS instruments specifically designed to perform direct in situ analyses in selected μm-size areas of complex geological samples. The IMS 1280 ...