A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 "pinwheel star" holds more mystery but is even less likely to be the ...

The same result is obtained when studying the pulse-height from the gamma-rays emitted by different substances. There is, in this case, a continuous distribution of pulses from zero to a certain ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) was launched on October 17, 2002 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Its mission was to observe the ...

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This was the life of Jack Nicholson back in the day, and now the existence of son Ray Nicholson. The on-the-rise actor has two new movies in theaters this weekend: action comedy “Novocaine ...

GTA 5 got a PC graphical upgrade in 2025 with ray tracing, improving illumination. Ray tracing enhances lighting in the game, creating depth & realism, but some fans find it too bright.

The research team, led by Steven Dillmann of Stanford University was scouring decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory when it spotted a powerful (but brief) blast of X-rays coming ...

This is because the particles or rays become more spread out. The thicker the substance, the more the radiation is absorbed. Alpha, beta and gamma radiations penetrate materials in different ways.