Accidental Breakthrough As Supercooled Wires Detect Near-Light-Speed Protons
Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors (SNSPDs), originally designed for detecting photons, can also accurately detect high-energy protons. This unexpected finding ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Homing in on ∆g: Study nearly nixes negative gluon spin
Researchers have been working for decades to understand the architecture of the subatomic world. One of the knottier questions has been where the proton gets its intrinsic angular momentum, otherwise ...
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Stellar recognition for UD’s Matthaeus
William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest ...
Microwaving your coffee changes it, and other lessons learned (while sipping espresso) in MIT’s coffee class
This February marks the second year of the MIT class “Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup.” ...