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, ...

At any given moment, the Earth's atmosphere is showered with high-energy cosmic rays that have been blasted from supernovae and other astrophysical phenomena far beyond the Solar System. When cosmic ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canadian Earth ‘x-ray’ start-up Ideon Technologies and French Orano Group (Orano), one of the top world uranium producers, have deployed the world’s first ...

Earth is constantly being struck by cosmic particles. High-energy muons can easily penetrate several meters of steel or concrete. A team at the German independent research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

When Debaditya Biswas was a high school student in India, his math teacher, Dr. Satyabrata Das, sparked his interest in physics. "Before I joined his class, I was really not sure what I was going to ...

Scientists hoping to find new, long-lived particles at the Large Hadron Collider recently realized they may already have the detector to do it. Physicist Cristián Peña grew up in Talca, a small town a ...

Remy Chemillac, Exploration Technical Director at Orano Canada, has a look at the world’s first borehole cosmic-ray muon detector from Ideon Technologies as it arrives on site with the deployment team ...