Astronomers have made a shocking discovery that’s rewriting the way we think about cosmic powerhouses. While scientists ...

The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory ...

The eight-part series is full of intrigue, some confusion, and leaves us with a lot of questions, our first being what the hell is a Cherenkov tank? The series is based on a series of novels of the ...

Scientists have long thought that the highest-energy gamma rays in space are forged in the intense furnaces of very active ...

Because these electrons travel through the nanoparticles faster than the speed of light in silicon, they produce Cherenkov radiation — the radiation that is responsible for the blue glow ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

For water at room temperature, this angle is 41º. In a water Cherenkov detector, the Cherenkov radiation is detected, usually by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and the cone of emission reconstructed.

The lab focuses currently several avenues: (i) the utilization of nanoparticles for cancer therapy; (ii) novel imaging approaches such as Cerenkov and optoacoustic imaging and (iii) the biology of ...

This latest finding by scientists from the international High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory (HAWC) radically changes the previous understanding of the mechanisms responsible for ...

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A long-term study of climactic conditions in La Palma shows more than double the increase in temperature predicted by climate ...

The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities point to a rise of 1.1 C in the average temperature. The ...