4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (229+ words) Muons at Auger have a documented history as an inconvenient puzzle. Since the early 2010s, the Collaboration has reported a persistent "muon excess": air showers contain significantly more muons than models predict — a discrepancy that has resisted explanation for more than…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (985+ words) Scientists have demonstrated a new method to produce methane fuel from Martian carbon dioxide using an advanced copper catalyst. Researchers at the University of Mississippi have developed a method that could help future Mars missions produce rocket fuel directly from…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (226+ words) Fred James, CERN’s renowned expert on data analysis and statistics, pioneer of numerical methods, and co-author of the popular book Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics, sadly passed away on 31 July. By the late 1960s, Fred was already deeply involved in particle…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1074+ words) An ADN green rocket thruster ignited electrically at room temperature, eliminating the need for a preheated catalyst bed. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) An experimental “green” rocket thruster has fired successfully using ammonium dinitramide fuel without the catalyst bed normally…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (927+ words) Despite science's best efforts to classify the vast menagerie of subatomic particles discovered over the past few decades, some exotic varieties defy explanation. Now, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have found evidence of…...