A cosmic explosion detected on July 4, 2025, began with a 0.4-second gamma-ray burst and then continued glowing in softer ...

Astronomers have observed the longest-lasting central engine activity ever recorded from a gamma-ray burst. The burst ...

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

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 ...

Heat-resilient biofertilizers could help crops cope with rising temperatures but engineering them has been slow and uncertain. A new study at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology ...

Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation discovered a source of intense gamma rays released during solar flares, offering a new insight that could enhance space weather ...

Machine learning algorithms have increasingly become integral to gamma-ray spectroscopy, enabling automated feature extraction, classification and quantitative analysis from complex spectral data.

Semiconductor detectors for gamma-ray imaging exploit wide-band-gap materials to combine high stopping power with room-temperature operation, compact form factors and precise spectroscopic ...

An X8.2 class solar flare flashes in the edge of the Sun on Sept. 10, 2017. This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 304 angstrom ...

In the quiet laboratories of Bengaluru, a beam of gamma radiation has done something remarkable to an unassuming mulberry plant. Researchers bombarded juvenile twigs of the S54 mulberry variety with ...