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

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• Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study
  This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. · September 14, 2026 13:07
  Scientists recreated cosmic rays in a massive underground particle collider.

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• Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study
  Phys.org · September 14, 2026 15:00
  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, constantly strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere. The impacts break them apart into a shower of particles that rain to…