Saturday, October 4, 2014

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

Physicist turns smartphones into pocket cosmic ray detectors

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:26 PM PDT

A new smartphone app can essentially turn Android phones into pocket cosmic ray detectors. The app, DECO, uses the phone's camera to capture energetic subatomic light particles and log data.

Exotic matter: A closer look at the perfect fluid sheds light on what happened microseconds after the Big Bang

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 11:18 AM PDT

By combining data from two high-energy accelerators, nuclear scientists have refined the measurement of a remarkable property of exotic matter known as quark-gluon plasma. The findings reveal new aspects of the ultra-hot, 'perfect fluid' that give clues to the state of the young universe just microseconds after the Big Bang.
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