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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NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

On April 14, 2023, the most ambitious mission to Jupiter's moons launched — and barely anyone noticed. JUICE will spend 8 years traveling across space before reaching Jupiter’s icy moons, where hidden ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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