As rich ore gets harder to find, the mining industry is using subatomic particles to map rock deep underground ...

Fermilab’s Mu2e experiment has reached a critical assembly stage with its 60-ton cosmic-ray veto system in the detector hall, ...

Australia's bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic ...

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment.

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 ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canadian subsurface intelligence company Ideon Technologies has delivered successful imaging results from the world’s first borehole muon tomography ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleontologist cleaning a skeleton during an archaeology dig; illustrative. (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) Using muon detectors, ...