Cosmic Rays Sound Scary, But Radiation Risk On A Flight Is Small : Shots - Health News Pilots and flight attendants in some countries are classified as "radiation workers" because of their extra ...

The potential threat from cosmic radiation, particles emitted from the sun, and other stars, has caused concern for some years, even though there is no strong evidence that it can cause harm. While it ...

It found that the chief health threat to the Apollo astronauts came from cosmic rays, which are more prevalent and powerful beyond the magnetic bubble that surrounds Earth.

It's an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth. Concerns have reached the point where a major ...

Health can be affected by cosmic rays? In 2017, Nasa said that pregnant individuals can watch the eclipse and even if a child is born during the celestial event, its health remains fine.

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

In the United States, the average annual dose from cosmic radiation stands at 0.34 mSv (34 mrem) per year. This relatively low dose of radiation is improbable to have any adverse effects on human ...

Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat. Writing in Nature, the researchers suggest two possible solutions.One is to protect the quantum processor by shielding it ...

As humanity prepares for longer stays in space, scientists have found that exposure to space environments could increase the risk of erectile dysfunction.

It turns out that the intensities of cosmic rays and earthquakes may be linked. It may seem a bit far-fetched—how could shifting tectonic plate and sunlight have anything to do with each other?