Muons
Government Scientists to Scan Great Pyramid With Cosmic Rays to Find Secrets
Individual artifacts might be detectable with an advanced telescope that captures particles made in outer space.
How a ‘Beauty’ Particle Is Challenging Our Understanding of Physics
Preliminary results from the Large Hadron Collider keep showing a weird unexplained anomaly in an ultra-rare particle decay process.
Scientists Think an Exploding Star Helped Kill Off the Megalodon
An Astrobiology study proposes that an ancient supernova could have exposed Megalodon and other large ocean animals to deadly muon radiation.
Scientists Blast Pyramids of Giza With Subatomic Particles to Reveal Its Secrets
Ancient mysteries could be unraveled with the most high-tech sensors.
A Next-Generation Gamma Ray Telescope Could Help Image the Guts of Mount Etna
It could offer an early-warning for those beneath one of Earth's most active volcanoes.
Stealing Used Nuclear Fuel Is About to Get Harder
With new imaging technology, researchers are attempting to look inside a nuclear waste storage cask to verify that all the waste is still inside.
Scientists Are Using Cosmic Radiation To Peer Inside Fukushima’s Mangled Reactor
Not even our best imaging tools can penetrate the plant's radiation shielding. Thanks, space!