New tool finds use where digging is practically or politically impossible in Jerusalem. Some of the ancient history underneath Jerusalem is easily accessible. Pilgrims and tourists can get their feet ...

American archeologist, Professor Chris McKinny, is utilizing a high-tech muon detector in hopes of uncovering the long-lost ...

Earth is constantly being struck by cosmic particles. High-energy muons can easily penetrate several meters of steel or concrete. A team at the German independent research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleontologist cleaning a skeleton during an archaeology dig; illustrative. (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) Using muon detectors, ...

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment.

Scientists have directly observed muonic molecules in resonance states for the first time, using a high-resolution X-ray ...

When Debaditya Biswas was a high school student in India, his math teacher, Dr. Satyabrata Das, sparked his interest in physics. "Before I joined his class, I was really not sure what I was going to ...

As rich ore gets harder to find, the mining industry is using subatomic particles to map rock deep underground ...