Sentences with phrase «findings on cosmic rays»

Not exact matches

To test their effect on aerosol nucleation, Kirkby's team fired beams similar to cosmic rays through the chamber and found it increased nucleation between 2 and 10 times.

I mean, for instance, I would never have thought that we would find these correlations between the cosmic rays and the evolution of the Milky Way and life on Earth.

Cucinotta said the findings show a tremendous need for additional studies focused on cosmic ray exposures to tissues that dominate human cancer risks, and that these should begin prior to long - term space missions outside the Earth's geomagnetic sphere.

On the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray burstOn the one hand there was a quest by scientists to find the world's funniest joke, and on the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray burston the other, dire warnings about the dangers of mobile phones, an increase in the incidence of new variant CJD, climate change, and cosmic threats to Earth in the shape of asteroids and gamma ray bursts.

The PAMELA findings, along with others from experiments flown on balloons as a cheaper alternative to the space shuttle, «are a demonstration of the rich science that is likely to be forthcoming from the AMS,» says AMS team member Eun - Suk Seo, a cosmic ray physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Here's a recent example from The New York Times: «Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $ 1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of «new physical phenomena» that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.»

They found that galactic cosmic rays exert only a small influence on the formation of sulphuric acid — dimethylamine clusters (the embryonic stage before aerosols may act as cloud condensation nuclei).

Found that while trying to look up the maximum energy for cosmic rays, and it's apparently on the order of «enough to knock you down if it hits you» — a particle moving nearly at the speed of light has a huge mass.

Feynman andRuzmaikin (1999) found that, «the intensity of cosmic rays incident on the magnetopause has decreased markedly during this century,» i.e., the twentieth century (and also that, «the pattern of cosmic ray precipitation through the magnetosphere to the upper troposphere has also changed.»

That's not surprising as the noise machine rattles on; a recent study that did not link cosmic rays to global warming is being touted as saying exactly the opposite (you can find links to more about that on Greg Laden's blog).

«In addition, research studies in just the past couple of decades have found a complicated relationship between solar activity, cosmic rays, and clouds on Earth.»

In summary the findings to date indicate that the effect of cosmic rays on cloud formation is small compared to the large variations in natural biogenic aerosol emissions.

I've read most (but not all) comments and found nothing about the Svensmark effect (cosmic ray influence on cloud cover).

On page 193 in The AR4 IPCC report there is a reference to Kristjansson and Kristiansen, 2000 and Sun and Bradley, 2002 where they find no correspondance between cosmic rays and clouds after 1991 and low level clouds after 1994.

So even if cosmic rays are linked to cloud formation, all they'll find is the cloud formation 50 years ago is similar to now and has little to no impact on the last 30 years of long term global warming.

Leif Svalgaard Could you please briefly explain what Newell et al. (2007) found and how it does / does not affect the impact of cosmic rays on low level clouds.

David L. Hagen (21:18:03): Could you please briefly explain what Newell et al. (2007) found and how it does / does not affect the impact of cosmic rays on low level clouds.

Skills relevant to this position and found on applicants» resumes include developing and improving upon existing software; overseeing, operating, and maintaining equipment to detect high - energy cosmic rays at the experiment site; and participating in large - level hardware troubleshooting and design.