Articles in Cosmic Rays
A little poison helps, a lot harms – “hormesis”
You may have come across hormesis previously:
charcoal water is often used when people have overdosed on their medications, but too many charred steaks increases your cancer risk
many ancient sites (i.e. stone circles) have people who …
LaViolette: Super-sized Solar Proton Event
A lot of serious cataclysm research revolves around the event of 10-12 thousand years ago, when the ice age abruptly ended and mega-fauna were wiped out, especially in the Americas. Paul LaViolette is one of …
Ice Crystals and Solar Halos
According to recent reports, ice crystals in the sky are on the increase, as evidenced by some recent solar halos in Kolkata and Bournemouth:
The ice crystals are also to blame for a recent episode of …
Cosmic Rays / Sting / Asteroid in 2182
A neutrino observatory consisting of strings of detectors buried deep in Antarctic ice has confirmed that more cosmic rays arrive from some parts of the sky than others, something already observed in the northern hemisphere
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Toyota Problem Due To Cosmic Rays?
While this has no direct connection to 2012 itself, it does highlight how easily we are able to forget the extraordinary forces of cosmic rays, which are zapping through each of us right now, which …
WR 104 – Potential Space Nasty
I really like “bad astronomy” articles, but even more so when they admit they are scared. In this instance it is a binary star known as Wr 104. At a distance of 5000-8000 light years …
Cosmic Rays Reach Modern Era High
Within the “Space Age” (since the 1950s) this year marks the greatest intensity of cosmic rays reaching planet Earth. Not coincidentally, this year is also the lowest solar minimum of the period. Basically more solar …
Cosmic Ray Hotspots Located
Researchers working from seven years worth of results from the Los Alamos’ Milagro cosmic-ray observatory have found that the two spots (marked in red above), have been sending us more cosmic rays than would be …
Mysterious Cosmic Rays from Nearby – More Evidence
(Nearby in space terms means hundreds of light years…)
For the last 8 years researchers in Antarctica have been flying a balloon carrying the NASA-funded cosmic ray detector known as the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter. Results …
Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays – Local Origin?
Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are the fastest moving objects ever found. If a ray of light travels through a void for 300 million years, and an UHECR travels on the same journey, light will get …
AGNs – source of high-energy cosmic rays
According to New Scientist, Nov 17 2007:
The Auger researchers analysed all 27 of the most energetic cosmic rays… and found that almost all seemed to come from AGNs less than 250 million light years away…
However… …
White Dwarf Acts Like A Pulsar
Observers had believed white dwarfs were inert stellar corpses that slowly cool and fade away…At least one white dwarf, known as AE Aquarii, emits pulses of high-energy (hard) X-rays as it whirls around on its …
Retinoids to protect from Cosmic Rays?
Scientific American, November 2007:
NASA has worried that cosmic rays could undermine a human voyage to Mars. New simulations and calculations, though, suggest that such lengthy exposure to space radiation may pose only half the health …
Cosmic Rays come from AGNs: Confirmed
A group of scientists from 17 countries, formed by researchers of the Universidad de Granada, has proved that the sources of the most energetic particles ever detected do not come from directions uniformly distributed in …
