Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that constantly bombard Earth from space and are influenced by the sun's magnetic ...

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team ...

Every second, without you knowing it, thousands of billions of invisible particles pass through your body. These cosmic ...

The “spacescape” exposes crystal oscillators used in space applications to the hazards of radiation. This article focuses on ...

What would happen if you stuck your body inside a particle accelerator? The scenario seems like the start of a bad Marvel comic, but it happens to shed light on our intuitions about radiation, the ...

A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole ...

Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...

Hawking radiation suggests that black holes are not completely black but emit faint radiation and decay over time. The idea ...

Tiny charged electrons and protons which can damage satellites and alter the ozone have revealed some of their mysteries to scientists. Tiny charged electrons and protons which can damage satellites ...

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