Muon tomography, or muography, is the practice of using muons generated by cosmic rays interacting with Earth’s atmosphere to image structures on Earth’s surface, akin to producing an X… ...

How to make a muon detector If you're mainly interested in muons, there is another clever trick you can do to find them, again fairly simply. Muons, when they reach you or the ground, are ...

The muon detector records the amount of cosmic radiation that reaches the lab. Muons are heavier versions of electrons made from the collision of cosmic rays with atoms in earth’s atmosphere. At ...

GPS doesn’t work as well inside buildings, underground or underwater. Now engineers in Japan have developed and tested an alternative technology that uses cosmic rays to track movement beneath a ...

Physicists have designed a pocket-sized cosmic ray muon detector to track these ghostly particles. The detector can be made with common electrical parts, and when turned on, it lights up and counts ...

In the 1970s, a pioneering experiment used muon detectors to search for hidden chambers in an Egyptian pyramid. It wasn’t until 50 years later that the technology began to come into its own.

Unable to dig, researchers look to cosmic rays to unlock Jerusalem’s ancient underworld A Tel Aviv University team is using muon detectors to track powerful particles, hoping to build a 3D map ...

The team says there are other advantages too. CTS is far cheaper than GPS, with muon detectors costing as little as US$100 each, instead of hundreds of thousands for atomic clocks.

Muon particles are negatively-charged particles produced by cosmic rays that collide with atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Around 10,000 muons reach Earth's surface per square meter per minute.

By counting how many muons arrived at a detector on the ground in Kagoshima, Japan as cyclones moved past, Tanaka and colleagues produced rough 3-D maps of the density of air inside the storms.

Sri Lanka became the very first country (outside the USA) to deploy Georgia State University’s (GSU) Cosmic Ray Muon Detector. Sri Lanka now becomes GSU’s first international member as a part of its ...