‘Factory of discoveries’: China thinks big for massive science projects to explain the universe

Source: South China Morning PostNever have there been so many of these costly, shiny, futuristic-seeming gadgets in one place – 1,188 muon detectors, 4,901 electromagnetic particle detectors, 78,000 square metres of water Cherenkov detector array and 18 wide-angle gamma-ray telescopes.On a 4,410-metre-high mountain top to the southeast of Tibet, these devices form the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (Lhaaso), the largest cosmic ray detector in the world.On Monday, researchers from Lhaaso announced the detection of…Read More

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