Muons galore: why is Pierre Auger seeing more muons than expected? (Courtesy: Pierre Auger Observatory) Significantly more muons appear to be created in cosmic-ray showers than are predicted by models ...

A little over a year ago we’d written about a sub $100 muon detector that MIT doctoral candidate [Spencer Axani] and a few others had put together. At the time there was little more than a paper on ...

At its most glamorous, the life of an experimental high-energy physicist consists of smashing obscure subatomic particles with futuristic-sounding names into each other to uncover truths about the ...

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The study of these fast-moving particles provides significant clues about the early universe.

Cosmic ray imaging has revealed a previously undetected secret burial chamber ten meters beneath Naples' ancient necropolis.

What lies within: exploring Khufu's Pyramid using virtual reality A large void hidden deep within Khufu’s Pyramid at Giza in Egypt has been discovered by a team of physicists. The first-ever image of ...

On Wednesday, April 7, the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab released its eagerly awaited first result. In the experiment, muons (like electrons but heavier) race around the 150-foot circumference ...

You might think that particle physicists would be sad when an experiment comes up with different results than their theory would predict, but nothing brightens up a field like unexplained phenomena.

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future ...

From protons to electrons to atomic nuclei, physicists love smashing tiny stuff together. And soon, they may have an even better way to get their kicks. A new experiment raises prospects for building ...