Cosmic rays are charged subnuclear particles that move close to the speed of light, constantly raining down on the Earth. These particles are relativistic, as defined by Albert Einstein’s special ...

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While moving around within the gas in the interstellar medium, cosmic rays kickstart the background protons, which causes a collective plasma wave movement akin to ripples on a lake. The big question ...

Coined by astrophysics Adam Frank and Amedeo Balbi, the “oxygen bottleneck” describes the critical threshold that separates worlds capable of fostering technological civilizations from those that fall ...

This illustration shows how waves and particles interact -- wave amplitude is growing while particle drift speed is dropping due to scattering. CREDIT A. Marcowith, A.J. van Marle, and I. Plotnikov ...

WASHINGTON, August 24, 2021 -- Cosmic rays are charged subnuclear particles that move close to the speed of light, constantly raining down on the Earth. These particles are relativistic, as defined by ...