There's too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this be explained by ...

Soil water resources are crucial for hydrological processes and ecosystem functions on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, ...

A type of binary-system known as a microquasar has been found to be firing out γ-rays at high energy-levels, which may make ...

An overabundance of antimatter in showers of charged particles that bombard Earth called cosmic rays could reveal the secrets of dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," a new study ...

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. We know it exists (it constitutes ...

The electrical effects of a thunderstorm are not confined just to high up in the atmosphere. Close to the ground, Earth's ...

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions and glaciations. But how does this work? It turns out that rocks, like ...

Research done at a mountaintop cosmic-ray observatory in Armenia has shed new light on how thunderstorms can create flashes ...

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India's MACE observatory in Ladakh, at 4,300 metres, is now the world`s highest Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment. This ...