Cosmic Rays
How Space Weather Can Influence Elections on Earth
The real alien voter fraud is genuinely coming from outside our planet.
Who Needs a Sun? Alien Life Could Survive Off of Cosmic Rays
We might not need to look for a “Goldilocks” planet after all.
Radiation From Ancient Supernovae May Have Given Evolution an Astrophysical Push
High-energy cosmic rays mean an increase in cellular mutations, for good and bad.
Goodbye Beach, Hello Rehearsal Room: How Musicians Get Serious in the Cold Season
We asked Lucy Cliché, Ella Thompson (GL/Dorsal Fins) and Matt Neumann (ScotDrakula) about their winter music plans.
Here's a Trippy Simulation of Space Weather
While sampling the solar wind, New Horizons may have witnessed the birth of anomalous cosmic rays
CERN Researchers Are Making a DIY Cosmic Ray Detector in Their Spare Time
Cosmic Pi makes each user a single pixel in an open source cosmic ray telescope.
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples with Staggering Amounts of Data
Sensors collect terabytes of raw data every day in an attempt to discover the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.
A Far Out Theory Asks If Underground Life Could Live Off Cosmic Rays
And we might be able to find such life right here on Earth—hypothetically, of course.
Stealing Used Nuclear Fuel Is About to Get Harder
With new imaging technology, researchers are attempting to look inside a nuclear waste storage cask to verify that all the waste is still inside.
Scientists Are Using Cosmic Radiation To Peer Inside Fukushima’s Mangled Reactor
Not even our best imaging tools can penetrate the plant's radiation shielding. Thanks, space!
The Plan to Turn All of Our Smartphones into a Global Cosmic Ray Detector
A pair of scientists want to network everyone’s phones to turn the world into one big cosmic ray detection device.