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- Cosmic rays streamed through Earth's atmosphere 41k years ago https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cosmic-rays-streamed-earth-atmosphere.html 53 comments
- Attack of the cosmic rays: Undetected memory errors can happen to you http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/06/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays/ 28 comments
- Questions surround NASA’s shutdown of an international cosmic-ray instrument https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.4224 6 comments technology
- Worsening cosmic ray situation http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=03&year=2018 8 comments space
- Power from cosmic rays? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7c8yka/power_from_cosmic_rays/ 8 comments askscience
- Comprehensive study shows cosmic rays are not causing global warming http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/nov/05/comprehensive-study-shows-cosmic-rays-are-not-causing-global-warming 4 comments science
- Using smartphones to search for ultra-high energy cosmic rays https://knowridge.com/2016/08/using-smartphones-to-search-for-ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays/ 6 comments science
- I read that astronauts DNA can be “shattered” by cosmic rays, what does this actually mean? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4qpggj/i_read_that_astronauts_dna_can_be_shattered_by/ 19 comments askscience
- Pyramid Interior Revealed Using Cosmic Rays http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/pyramid-interior-revealed-using-cosmic-rays-160427.htm 7 comments history
- Voyager 1 has left the solar system, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2013/2013-11.shtml 33 comments space
- CERN Finds "Significant" Cosmic Ray Cloud Effect http://www.thegwpf.org/the-observatory/3702-cern-finds-qsignificantq-cosmic-ray-cloud-effect.html 8 comments science
- Cosmic ray measurements from Voyager 2 as it crossed into interstellar space https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0928-3 4 comments space
- Scientists use cosmic rays to detect “void” in pyramid of Giza http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41845445 3 comments science
- Attack of the cosmic rays: Undetected memory errors can happen to you! http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/06/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays/ 43 comments programming
- Sun leaves Earth wide open to cosmic rays http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227144.700-sun-leaves-earth-wide-open-to-cosmic-rays.html 6 comments science
- Mysterious Cosmic Rays Shooting from the Ground in Antarctica Could Break Physics https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3jdmk/mysterious-cosmic-rays-shooting-from-the-ground-in-antarctica-could-break-physics 10 comments science
- Galactic cosmic rays burst through a crack in Earth's magnetic shield http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cosmic-rays-burst-magnetic-shield 4 comments science
- A source accelerating Galactic cosmic rays to unprecedented energy discovered at the centre of the Milky Way http://phys.org/news/2016-03-source-galactic-cosmic-rays-unprecedented.html 2 comments science
- Evidence that cosmic rays seed clouds. May be an alternative explanation for the global warming http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/45982 12 comments science
- At least some Toyota acceleration incidents likely caused by cosmic rays flipping bits http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100327/sc_livescience/toyotarecallmightbecausedbycosmicrays 20 comments science
- The most energetic cosmic rays pelting Earth are coming from outside our galaxy https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/21/16335164/pierre-auger-observatory-cosmic-ray-galaxies-air-shower-particles 3 comments space
- The sun is in its weakest phase in half a century, which means cosmic rays pose more danger. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/solar-cycle-sun.html 5 comments science
- There's a mysterious barrier in the centre of the Milky Way. Researchers found a dip in the otherwise uniform density of our galaxy’s cosmic rays. https://www.inverse.com/science/barrier-in-the-center-of-the-milky-way 68 comments space
- Voyager 2, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our Solar System https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7252 5 comments science
- Cosmic rays originate from supernova shockwaves: The remnants of self-destructing stars can accelerate particles to higher energies than world's most powerful accelerator. http://www.nature.com/news/cosmic-rays-originate-from-supernova-shockwaves-1.12436 38 comments science
- NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) X-ray space telescope has roared into orbit to start its planned two-year mission studying polarized X-rays from a variety of "extreme and mysterious" cosmic sources. https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-ixpe-x-ray-telescope-launch/ 2 comments worldnews
- Jupiter shields its moon Europa from cosmic rays and other radiation, which would otherwise erase signs of life that may be present on Europa's surface, new study finds. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/10/jupiter-shields-europa-from-cosmic-rays-that-could-erase-evidence-of-life 6 comments worldnews
- Jupiter shields its moon Europa from cosmic rays and other radiation, which would otherwise erase signs of life that may be present on Europa's surface, new study finds. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/10/jupiter-shields-europa-from-cosmic-rays-that-could-erase-evidence-of-life 3 comments space
- Jupiter's magnetic field shields Europa from galactic cosmic rays that could erase evidence of life. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/10/15/jupiter-shields-europa-from-cosmic-rays-that-could-erase-evidence-of-life/ 17 comments space
- New evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth’s climate by increasing cloud cover, causing an “umbrella effect”. http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/research_at_kobe_en/news/news/2019_07_03_01.html 206 comments science
- NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space -- NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-voyager-2-could-be-nearing-interstellar-space 3 comments science
- Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics. Cosmic rays emanating from the south polar ice cap could lead to new physics. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-particles-keep-flying-out-of-antarcticas-ice-and-they-might-shatter-modern-physics/ 14 comments worldnews
- Italy’s famous dome is cracking and cosmic rays could help save it: Filippo Brunelleschi left no detailed blueprints for how he built his famous structure https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/cosmic-rays-could-help-unlock-the-secrets-of-brunelleschis-dome/ 19 comments europe
- Inside the Russian mind: Understand Putin by understanding his favourite thinkers -- A fascist-admiring monarchist and a believer in cosmic rays as the source of national power have influenced the Kremlin’s ideology [Review of "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America" by Timothy Snyder] https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21739941-fascist-admiring-monarchist-and-believer-cosmic-rays-source-national 5 comments worldevents
- Indian scientist, using world's most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, record a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicates a crack in Earth’s magnetic shield. http://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/indian-scientists-detect-crack-in-earth-s-magnetic-shield/story-pswnbbarpwfwudae7zwdcj.html 8 comments worldnews
- New europium-doped strontium iodide detectors put cosmic ray-activated "sub-surface" asteroid elemental abundance spectroscopy in a cubesat http://phys.org/news/2015-11-detector-asteroid-planetary.html 6 comments space
- Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure leads to dementia-like cognitive impairments http://phys.org/news/2015-05-long-term-galactic-cosmic-ray-exposure.html 4 comments science
- A new study highlights one of the big problems with extended space travel: galactic cosmic ray radiation. According to the report, astronauts on the International Space Station would receive doses that exceed their lifetime limits after just 18 months for women and two years for men. http://www.wired.com/2014/04/radiation-risk-iss-mars/ 9 comments space
- Scientists have solved the mystery of cosmic rays, a stream of highly-energetic sub-atomic particles that pervades the Universe and is responsible for much of the extra radiation dose received by airline passengers. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cosmic-scientists-clear-up-one-of-large-unsolved-puzzles-about-our-universe-8495101.html 22 comments science
- The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is getting early scientific results on cosmic rays, a phenomenon the telescope was not designed to study. http://www.physorg.com/news199468476.html 11 comments science