Researchers have completed the major construction of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a next-generation nuclear detector designed to deliver the most precise measurements yet of atomic ...

NASA has selected SpaceX to launch StarBurst, a small satellite developed to detect short gamma-ray bursts—brief, high-energy explosions emitted from merging neutron stars. The announcement, which was ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics and the Hong Kong Institute for ...

Newswise — Understanding how atoms behave has led to many advances, including PET scans that diagnose disease and nuclear energy that powers homes. But our picture of the nucleus, the heart of the ...

In the conventional diagram of an atom, the center depicts a nucleus—a spherical cluster of protons and neutrons. But that ...

A reanalysis of cosmic gamma-ray measurements found no evidence of the tested departures from Lorentz invariance. The researchers tightened limits on specific photon-sector parameters by about a ...

The Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array successfully completed a first commissioning and characterization run and is ready to begin scientific operations at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. As the ...

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