News tagged with light particles

Science nugget: Catching solar particles infiltrating Earth's atmosphere

(Phys.org) -- On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached Earth about 20 minutes after ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new generation of acoustic measurements

NPL scientists have made the first measurements of airborne acoustic free-field pressures using a laser technique based on photon correlation spectroscopy.

Physics / General Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0