The Institute of Electron Technology in Warsaw, Poland, has provided state-of-the-art silicon alpha-particle detectors for the nuclear research centre in Darmstadt. The semiconductor devices are ...

If you want to measure radioactivity, nothing really beats a Geiger counter: compact, rugged, and reasonably easy to use, they’re by far the most commonly used tool to detect ionizing radiation.

Bringing light to the invisible, this spark detector takes advantage of Alpha radiation's tendency to ionize air. Add 6,000 ...

An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments. In 2024, the T2K ...

At every moment, subatomic particles stream in unfathomable numbers through your body. Each second, about 100 billion neutrinos from the sun pass through your thumbnail, and you’re bathed in a rain of ...