The sPHENIX particle detector, the newest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of ...

Alpha particles, with their high linear energy transfer (LET), cause irreparable double-strand DNA breaks---far more lethal to cancer cells than the single-strand nicks from beta particles. Dr.

Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space with an energy they once could only dream of. “What we ...