When Francis Halzen addressed reporters early Tuesday morning upon receiving the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, he emphasized ...
Muography is a powerful, non-invasive tool that can use cosmic-ray muons to image structures underground. Transmission ...
“Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice. “for some ...
Francis Halzen, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.The award was given for ...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for the IceCube neutrino detector in the Antarctic ice. Here’s ...
To see the distant universe, we drill holes into the Antarctic ice.We do not lower lenses into the holes. Instead, we bury ...
NP, artificial muons were used to image a lead object through thick shielding. We look at what was measured, what was ...
Romanian researchers demonstrate imaging with laser-driven muon beams, penetrating thick concrete and lead to accelerate sub‑surface object scanning times. High‑energy particle beams produced by ...
When air resistance and other outside forces are excluded, ordinary objects fall at the same rate in the same gravitational ...
Cosmic rays let a telescope read thunderstorms from the ground, and Earth's magnetic field explains why it sees far more storms to the east.
Representations of the muon beam passing through a lead target. Credits: ELI–NP A group from ELI-NP (Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear ...