CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

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At this point, coin hunting remains the most popular activity in metal detecting. Over hundreds of years, people have been dropping coins around, resulting in a lot of interesting tiny treasures for ...

As the number of detector channels grows, additional transceivers are required. With more channels, FPGAs tend to have transceivers whose bandwidth often exceeds the capacity needed for each optical ...

Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Design and Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, Nanchang 330013, China ...

A team from Fermilab, Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and several international institutions has developed a new type of detector that could redefine how we study particle ...

The crofter, who is the owner of Nunton House Hostel on the island, hails the ring as his best find since starting the metal detecting hobby almost a decade ago. But his latest discovery on the ...

By making it possible to diagnose early coating deterioration quickly and without damaging the wood, their method could also reduce the need for costly visual inspections by detecting early ...

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Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that outweighs regular matter – which makes stars, planets, and everything we can see and touch – by five to one. But we don’t know what it is.

Two men with metal detectors recently discovered a trove of ancient treasure in Transylvania, which shed new light on early settlements in the storied historical region, local officials said.