A new system that uses subatomic particles produced high in Earth's atmosphere could provide a view inside volcanoes and help locate people trapped beneath rubble. When you purchase through links on ...

Most of the Linux distros I usually recommend to people tend to either use GNOME or KDE. Those 2 dominate the space, despite ...

The COSMIC desktop may be early in its life, but it's already showing a lot of promise for Linux users. Here's why you should ...

BOULDER--Preliminary findings from a revolutionary satellite system launched earlier this year show that the system can boost the accuracy of forecasts of hurricane behavior, significantly improve ...

When embarking on a mission to another planet, it’s always a good idea to know where you are. Thanks to a new technology, spacecraft could soon be able to do this all by themselves, by tracking their ...

Cosmic muons could provide a practical alternative to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) in places where radio signals cannot reach. That is the conclusion of the muPS collaboration, which ...

GPS is now a mainstay of daily life, helping us with navigation, tracking, mapping, and timing across a broad spectrum of applications. But it does have a few shortcomings, most notably not being able ...

Dust grains in the outer solar system are the source of some of the cosmic rays that bombard Earth, planetary scientists report in the Oct. 30 Geophysical Research Letters. The grains are located in ...

Image showing the positions of all the stars targeted by COSMIC thus far with data recorded into a database of potential signals. We have collected data on over 485,000 sources across the frequency ...

Researchers have found that a portion of anomalous cosmic rays -- charged particles accelerated to enormous energies by the solar wind -- results from interactions with dust grains from a belt of ...

As a kid, there was never a trip to a movie theater or bowling alley where I didn’t sink at least a handful of quarters into whatever beat-em-up arcade game was on site. I was enamored with The ...