Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, or ...

Scientists may have solved a long-standing mystery surrounding Uranus' extraordinarily strong radiation belt. A new analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a temporary space weather event may have ...

Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

8 lessons with each module dedicated to a key concept in radiobiology.The physics and chemistry of radiation interactions with biological matter. Radiation-induced DNA damage and repair. Cell death ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious ...

The universe is packed with riddles, but few are as stubborn or as fascinating as dark matter. First proposed in 1933 by astronomer Fritz Zwicky, this elusive substance refuses to play by the rules: ...