Subatomic Particles

Having a size smaller than the size of an atom, which is about one angstrom, or 10^-10 meters.

Radio Programs

Muons II Probing the past with particles from space Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Muons Zapped by a supernova Monday, April 29, 2013
IceCube Lighting up the Antarctic ice Thursday, July 21, 2011
Neutrinos Hunting for hard-to-find particles Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Luis Alvarez Subatomic particles and dead dinosaurs Monday, June 13, 2011
Lightning Shows III Firing beams of antimatter Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Underground Astronomy III From deep inside stars to deep inside Earth Thursday, March 3, 2011
Underground Astronomy II Blocking out interference Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Underground Astronomy Astronomy in the lowest of places Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Niels Bohr Follow the jumping electrons Thursday, October 7, 2010
Dark Matter Searches II Brewing up some dark matter Friday, July 23, 2010
Dark Matter Searches Catching an invisible particle Thursday, July 22, 2010
Dark Matter Particle Big, heavy, but hard to find Wednesday, July 21, 2010
IceCube, Part II
IceCube
More Axions
Axions

Featured Images

Pyramid of the Old Kingdom pharaoh Khafre and the Sphinx
 Inside Job Tuesday, April 30, 2013
A black hole is created in the Large Hadron Collider, then quickly evaporates
 Making a Black Hole Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 attached to the International Space Station
 On Duty Monday, May 23, 2011
Space shutle Endeavour launches on its final mission, June 16, 2011
 Final Endeavour Monday, May 16, 2011
Cold Astronomy Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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