A mile beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews have spent years blasting and hauling rock to carve out enormous ...

Something genuinely strange has just happened in fundamental physics: an underground neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured the effect of cosmic radiation in a cold molecular cloud. The observation ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu particle was detected in 2021 by the Telescope Array experiment in the U.S. It ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

Natural background radiation coming from cosmic rays, the earth's crust, and food can vary from place to place. Altitude is one factor that plays a role in radiation levels, as does geology. The graph ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star formation, and powerful winds work together with strong magnetic fields to ...

Oswego’s Little White School Museum will host a special presentation called “The History of Fermilab” starting at noon on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the museum at 72 Polk St. in Oswego. The presentation by ...

Re-creating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University ...

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