At high doses, cosmic rays can tear through DNA molecules and damage biological tissue. Prolonged exposure to cosmic ...

A new study suggests that cosmic radiation could potentially provide the energy to kick-start extraterrestrial life deep ...

A new class of advanced steels needs more fine-tuning before use in system components for fusion energy—a more sustainable ...

This early prototype was just 10 cm wide, but Lawrence’s innovation was so impactful that it earned him the 1939 Nobel Prize ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs in a circle under ...

Particle colliders help prep humans for deep space radiation By smashing together heavy particles at high speeds, scientists can study the types of radiation an astronaut would encounter in space.

After the beam shot through his skull and out just below his nose, Bugorski finished his day's work and went home for the evening.

That's a challenge because space radiation includes many kinds of energetic particles — such as solar wind, solar cosmic rays and galactic cosmic rays — that can't be reproduced on Earth.

When particle radiation hits a semiconductor – the conductive materials used to make electronics – it can knock atoms out of place, changing the material’s properties.

Shprits and colleagues from UCLA, MIT, Moscow's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and GFZ Potsdam combined geophysical models of particle radiation for a solar cycle with models for how ...