Japanese scientists who set up custom-made sensor banks trying to understand the association between lightning strikes and high-energy gamma-ray bursts ended up witnessing a “shocking” event: the ...

Space & Spaceflight Scientists Just Caught Lightning Firing Off a Gamma-Ray Blast The split-second spark may explain how storms become radioactive—and how lightning really begins.

The Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Market is expected to grow at a strong CAGR of around 7% owing to the rising applications of gamma ray spectroscopy in space research, mineral explorations, and nuclear ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that ...

In 2019, the first-ever image of a black hole captured global attention. This impressive achievement by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

To get a clearer view, in 2023 a team led by Nikolai Østgaard and Martino Marisaldi, both atmospheric physicists at the University of Bergen in Norway, monitored the gamma-ray emissions of large ...

Citations N. Østgaard et al. Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs. Nature. Vol 634, October 3, 2024, p. 53. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07893-0. M. Marisaldi et ...

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on gamma-ray technologies, with particular attention on their exploitation in physical sciences and biomedical applications.

A World-Changing Gamma Ray Laser Is on the Horizon. It Could One Day Unlock Interstellar Travel Researchers are finally getting close to solving “one of the most important problems in physics.” ...

Gamma-ray bursts allow astronomers to learn about the history of the universe, including how the birth rate and the mass of the stars change over time. Types of gamma-ray bursts ...