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 ...
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics and the Hong Kong Institute for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to ...
In a single experiment, physicists have measured the "excess" emission of high-energy gamma rays from more than a dozen heavy, unstable atomic nuclei. Mapping the gamma-ray emissions of so many ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...