The very moment two electrical currents slam together to form a lightning bolt has been captured, revealing for the first ...

An international team of astronomers using the Einstein Probe reports the discovery of a new peculiar fast-evolving ...

Buried deep in the ice in the Antarctic are "eyes" that can see elementary particles called neutrinos, and what they've ...

In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new ...

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...

Time to light up your day by singing about the electromagnetic spectrum with Sir Isaac Newton and Horrible Science. From ...

Samuel Ajayi graduated with a first class degree from the University of Ibadan, a masters in Radiation and Health Physics ...

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation and have the highest energy of any kind of wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. These waves come from things like supernova explosions ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

These two factors limit the number of isotopes that can be used successfully for Mössbauer spectroscopy. The most used is 57 Fe, which has both a very low energy gamma-ray and long-lived excited state ...