Could Space Radiation Mutate Seeds For The Benefit of Humanity? - Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/08/could-space-radiation-mutate-seeds-for-the-benefit-of-humanity/ #spacemutagenesis #hackadaycolumns #cosmicradiation #agriculture #mutagenesis #cosmicrays #radiation #science #iaea

https://www.europesays.com/us/7848/ God’s play? Chinese scientists catch cosmic rays meddling in quantum computer operation #BeijingAcademyOfQuantumInformationSciences #ChineseAcademyOfSciences #CosmicRayMuons #CosmicRays #FaultTolerantQuantumComputing #Google'sSycamoreSuperconductingProcessor #MuonEvents #muons #NanjingNormalUniversity #NatureCommunications #Physics #QuantumChips #QuantumComputing #QuasiparticleBursts #Qubits #Science #SuperconductingProcessor #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US

SCI4301: From Building Blocks to Universes Part 3 (January 24, 2022)

https://media.cooleysekula.net/w/6ar9ZtfaHvwXRmfUAit56a

https://www.europesays.com/2168214/ Mysterious Radio Signal Rising From Antarctica’s Ice Baffles Scientists #america #Anita #Antarctica #CosmicRays #ice #neutrinos #ParticlePhysics #physics #science #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

https://www.europesays.com/uk/183460/ Two Anomalous Radio Signals Detected Coming from Antarctic Ice #ANITA #Antarctica #CosmicRays #Earth #HighAltitudeBalloon #IceCube #Nasa #neutrino #particle #PierreAugerObservatory #RadioSignal #Science #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/uk/183128/ Signal from Antarctic ice defies known laws of particle physics #ANITAExperiment #Antarctica #Astrophysics #CosmicRays #neutrinos #ParticlePhysics #PennState #Physics #RadioSignals #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom

Space Weather

As this week's major geomagnetic storm subsides, the Forbush Decrease (reduction in galactic cosmic rays caused by the CME bow-shock) is still having an effect as it spreads out into the solar system.

The Oulu neutron monitor is still registering a rate around 10% lower than the background rate over the last month.

#spaceweather
#forbush
#cosmicrays

https://www.europesays.com/uk/132226/ Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle collider in the universe #CosmicRays #MagneticFields #Physics #Science #SupernovaRemnants #Supernovas #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/uk/130068/ Mysterious Cosmic Radiation is “a Very Serious Problem” for Astronauts—New Research Could Finally Reveal Its Origins #BlackHole #BlackHoleWind #CosmicRays #NorwegianUniversityOfScienceAndTechnology #Science #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom

Most powerful cosmic rays in the universe start shockingly close to Earth, paper claims

The most powerful cosmic rays in the universe currently have no explanation. New research suggests that exotic, self-annihilating particles in our own galaxy may hold the answer.

#cosmicrays #darkmatter #MilkyWay

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/most-powerful-cosmic-rays-in-the-universe-start-shockingly-close-to-earth-paper-claims

in the #arXiv

A new air shower array in the Southern Hemisphere looking for the origins of cosmic rays: the ALPACA experiment

by Marcos Anzorena and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14550

The ALPAQUITA Air Shower prototype array located at the Chacaltaya plateau in Bolivia

#cosmicrays #opensource I will be one of many people presenting at the Everything Open Conference 2025 here in #Adelaide in January. https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/65/

Energierekord für kosmische Elektronen. H.E.S.S.-Observatorium detektiert erstmals Elektronen mit 40 Teraelektronenvolt Energie.#HESS #kosmischeStrahlung #CosmicRays #Astronomie #Astrophysik
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/energierekord-fuer-kosmische-elektronen/

Soak up some rays.

#BadDayCures
#HashTagGames
#lasertag
#cosmicrays

In 1911 Victor Francis Hess discovered cosmic rays, a previously unknown but damaging radiation from the cosmos that penetrates Earth’s atmosphere. #Poetry #Science #History #Physics #CosmicRays #Hess (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1911b.html)

I'm back on my laptop.

"Back?"

Yes, last Friday, just before my date came over, my laptop experienced a hardware failure.

I tried to figure out what happened on Friday, to no avail. I had to set my work aside to take care of my date.

Yesterday, I used my desktop to access Mastodon, Discord, etc. I continued looking for what had happened, but that was also futile.

After an upgrade on Friday, my laptop was not rebooting normally. I eventually was able to get to the BIOS screen, but the computer clock was off. The Windows installation looked fine, but I never actually used it. The Linux partition looked zapped... I'm not sure what happened there. Did the BIOS try to perform a recovery maneuver and zap it?

I recovered my data from a backup. The SDD hasn't given more problems. I'm tempted to chalk it up to cosmic rays hitting the BIOS.

Sizes Of Tropical Glaciers Reach Historic Lows
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https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.ugii.cwga <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg7546 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #glacier #glacial #tropical #glaciers #melting #climatechange #holocene #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #highaltitude #history #SouthAmerica #Peru #CostaRica #Bolivia #PandeAzucar #Queshque #Zongo #CharquiniNorte #Andes #dating #isotopes #geochemistry #model #modeling #cosmicrays