Smartphone network could track incoming cosmic rays, UCI-led research finds

Your smartphone could become part of the world’s largest telescope. A team led by UC Irvine physicist Daniel Whiteson and UC Davis physicist Michael Mulhearn has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector, according to a paper posted today to the physics website arXiv.

Matter of fact

UCI is world-renowned leader in experimental particle physics, especially neutrinos

W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory

Time travelers

Scientists use radiocarbon dating to analyze everything from the world’s oldest shoe to sediment samples that shed light on global climate change.

carbon-dating fossils

Time travelers

Scientists use radiocarbon dating to analyze everything from the world’s oldest shoe to sediment samples that shed light on global climate change