Wednesday, October 22, 2014

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


Cosmic rays threaten future deep-space astronaut missions

Posted: 21 Oct 2014 10:50 AM PDT

Crewed missions to Mars remain an essential goal for NASA, but scientists are only now beginning to understand and characterize the radiation hazards that could make such ventures risky, concludes a new article.

POLARBEAR detects B-modes in the cosmic microwave background: Mapping cosmic structure, finding neutrino masses

Posted: 21 Oct 2014 07:11 AM PDT

The POLARBEAR experiment has made the most sensitive and precise measurements yet of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and found telling twists called B-modes in the patterns, signs that this cosmic backlight has been warped by intervening structures in the universe.

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