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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Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

In this 2020 return to the Lynyrd Skynyrd crash site, we use the Minelab Vanquish metal detectors to search for more pieces of music history. During this trip, we make an astonishing find linked to ...

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Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...