Samuel Ajayi graduated with a first class degree from the University of Ibadan, a masters in Radiation and Health Physics ...

Tracking the sources of photons is a hobby of many astrophysicists. Some types of photons are tied so closely to particular ...

The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) is converting a former mine shaft in Taebaek City into a ...

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian Ocean. Kosmos 482 had been bound for Venus but never reached its destination ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

NASA’s Compton Spectrometer and Imager mission, or COSI, expected to launch in 2027, could follow up on the study’s findings. The wide-field gamma-ray telescope is designed to observe giant magnetar ...

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a new study, magnetars—a rare type of neutron star—may have forged some of ...

The results of a 2024 study allowed the researchers to narrow their search to the stars as it found that magnetar giant flares, bursts of radiation released during "starquakes” can eject material from ...

Discover how gold in your jewelry may have cosmic origins, created in magnetar explosions billions of years ago, as revealed by NASA's recent study linking heavy elements formation to these unique ...

This was achieved using the gamma-ray spectrometer (KPLO Gamma-Ray Spectrometer, KGRS) aboard Korea's first lunar orbiter, Danuri, launched in August 2022. Kim Kyung-ja, head of the Korea ...

There exist several methods for the determination of radium isotopes in water, the ones utilizing gamma spectrometry with Germanium (Ge) detectors are the most efficient among them. The sensitivity of ...

LEAF-Linking Landscape Environment Agriculture and Food Research Center, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal Associate Laboratory TERRA, ...