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Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

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Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Laboratory provide insights into long-term trends, including climate change ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old Belgian researcher, has earned a PhD in quantum physics and says his work in ultracold systems ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

True ROI for R&D won't come from the tool that generates 10,000 new ideas. It will come from the tool that confidently tells ...