[Sebastian Tomczak] was borrowing a homeade muon detector from his friend, and managed to hook it up to his computer through an Arduino. The detector itself uses 3 fluorescent tubes to detect ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a detector that can see through lead or other heavy shielding in truck trailers or cargo containers to detect uranium, plutonium or other dense ...

Every second of every day, muons — tiny, electron-like particles — are raining down on the planet. Parted from the atmosphere through cosmic radiation, most pass through the earth like ghosts, never ...

GPS is great, unless you’re in a blind spot, inside a building, or under water. Professor Hiroyuki Tanaka at the University of Tokyo has developed a system that’s more reliable and precise. It uses ...