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Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study

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par Jesse Liu, Assistant Professor of Physics, New York University

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter, are constantly striking atoms in Earth’s atmosphere. The impacts break them apart into a shower of particles that rain to the ground.

Scientists have studied these cosmic rainstorms for over a century, but they lack a precise understanding…

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