We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...
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these scalaron interactions could explain why ultra-high-energy cosmic rays appear to originate from random locations in the sky, rather than from specific distant astrophysical sources.
Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...
Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...
Want to see cosmic rays? You might need a lot of expensive exotic gear. Nah. [The ActionLab] shows how a cup of coffee or cocoa can show you cosmic rays — or something — with just the right ...
That there are “hot spots” of cosmic rays in the sky. Large-scale surveys of cosmic rays suggest that there are a few hot spots in the sky that seem to produce more cosmic rays than others, but we don ...
Earth’s magnetic field acts as a protective barrier against the majority of these cosmic rays, and there is a measurable increase in radiation as you gain altitude and enter space. In space ...