Cosmic
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There are plenty of strange phenomena in the universe, and fast radio bursts are among the more mysterious. So far, we don't know the source of these high-energy light bursts, but Harvard researchers propose they're caused by planet-sized alien transmitters for powering interstellar spacecraft.
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Next time your smartphone freezes, the culprit might actually be the cosmic rays that are constantly raining down on us from outer space. A new study has examined how modern consumer electronics are becoming more vulnerable to cosmic interference, and suggests ways to build better chips.
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Scientists at UCI say that cosmic radiation could cause astronauts on long deep space missions to develop "space brain" with symptoms of dementia. Tests indicate that exposure to high-energy particles cause marked by long-term neurological damage.
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ScienceAn international team of scientists has accurately measured how much of the light striking, or tanning your body comes from outside of our galaxy.
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Photographer Navid Baraty has turned pancakes into planets, a potato into an asteroid and cat fur into a nebula in his latest series. Have a look at this cosmic fakery and see if you can guess what the images are comprised of – before you read the captions.
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ESA's Planck mission is yielding some surprising findings along with a beautiful new map of the Milky Way that breaks down some of the key elements of our galaxy. Data collected by the telescope is helping us unravel the secrets of the early universe.
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ScienceA professor of physics from the University of Wisconsin has come up with an app to turn your smartphone into a cosmic ray detector that works in a similar way to those instruments found in high-tech observatories and mega-expensive laboratories.
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Scientist at the University of Southampton, with the help of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, hope to use the Moon to detect the most energetic particles known; Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) cosmic rays.
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ScienceIt has been difficult to find evidence that the Universe is largely composed of a cosmic web consisting of narrow filaments, but astronomers have now photographed a segment of a cosmic filament glowing due to irradiation from a nearby quasar.
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ScienceA team of cosmologists in Finland and Poland have proposed that the accelerated expansion of the universe, usually explained by dark energy, may actually be the result of "Tardis regions" of spacetime that are larger on the inside than they appear from the outside.
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Infrared observation by the Spitzer space telescope have allowed astronomers to determine the most accurate and precise estimate to date of the Hubble constant - the rate at which our Universe is expanding.
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ScienceConstruction on IceCube, the world's largest neutrino observatory that is looking specifically for high-energy neutrinos, which are created in violent cosmic events such as super novae and gamma ray bursts, was completed last weekend.
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