We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex ...

Could some animals be tapping into cosmic radiation for survival? Scientists are exploring whether certain microbes, fungi, and even deep-sea creatures have adapted to use high-energy space ...

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles stripped of their outer layers and now only consist of nuclei. They travel near the speed of light through space and sometimes hit Earth’s atmosphere.

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Previous attempts to explain this ionisation process had relied on cosmic rays, fast and energetic particles that travel throughout the universe. However, this explanation has faced some ...

A star from dozens of lightyears away was to blame for what would soon happen. Cosmic rays from a nearby supernova would soon rain down on the unsuspecting cichlids, tearing apart their DNA ...

Later research confirmed this. What’s more, the clouds shield molecules from cosmic radiation that would otherwise break those compounds apart. As a result, water ice and other materials stored deep ...

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are the highest-energy particles in the Universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans. While the existence of ultrahigh energy ...