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Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures

By Natalie Wolchover
April 27, 2021
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Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays twist and turn on their way to Earth, which has made it nearly impossible to identify the colossal monsters that create them.

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Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA

By Charlie Wood
June 29, 2020
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Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

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A Cosmic-Ray Hunter Takes to the Sky

By Natalie Wolchover
April 27, 2017
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Angela Olinto’s new balloon experiment takes her one step closer to the unknown source of the most energetic particles in the universe.

astrophysics

The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit

By Natalie Wolchover
May 14, 2015
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Physicists are beginning to unravel the mysteries of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, particles accelerated by the most powerful forces in the universe.

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