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Cosmic rays will melt your brain
2015-05-04 18:20:08| Extremetech
A few years ago, researchers asked what really happens to your brain when you you irradiate it. Now those same researchers have asked the next logical question: What happens to your brain on the way to Mars?
No, cosmic rays arent causing global warming
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Climate change contrarians have sought all sorts of explanations for why humans arent causing global warming, ranging from changes in solar activity to natural cycles in Earths own wobbly climate system. Another increasingly popular reason given is cosmic rays -- highly energetic particles from outer space sources that are constantly bombarding our planet. Scientists have long considered this argument to be baseless, and now a new study hammers that point home further. Changes in how many cosmic...
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Refracted rays from Nutella jar blamed for UK house fire
2015-02-25 21:29:22| Airlines - Topix.net
Federal officials have agreed to let Southwest Airlines Co. keep flying planes that missed an inspection of a backup rudder system if the planes are checked in the next five days.
Pulse of a dead star powers intense gamma rays
2014-09-19 11:51:57| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is helping to untangle the mystery of what powers high-energy gamma rays emanating from supernova. The observatory's high-energy X-ray eyes were able to peer into a particular site of powerful gamma rays and confirm the source: A spinning, dead star called a pulsar.
Scientists are about to use supernova cosmic rays to peer inside the most dangerous room in the world: Fukushima
2014-07-28 17:52:14| Extremetech
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will be using one of the universe's most energetic fundamental particles to image the destruction inside Fukushima's reactor core.