particle
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Among the most extraordinary examples is the "Amaterasu particle," which was detected by the Telescope Array in Utah in 2021 and named for the sun goddess in Japanese mythology.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
The Amaterasu particle has been especially difficult to explain because its estimated arrival direction traces back to a cosmic void, a region of space with no clear source capable of producing ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
The British physicist-turned-computer scientist conceived the web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European particle physics lab in Switzerland.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Pluvicto carries a beta particle that travels for a longer range but is less lethal, while the new therapy uses an alpha particle that is more lethal but travels shorter distances, the analyst says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
As a result, for both planets, the rings clear out the radiation belts, which exist only interior and exterior to the particle rings.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing particle
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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