App turns a smartphone into a pocket-sized cosmic ray detector

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There are all sorts of apps available for smartphones to show atmospheric phenomena like wind speed, temperature, and rainfall along with other observations for tides and phases of the moon. But how about something really cool like an app for measuring the amount of interstellar cosmic radiation hitting the earth? A professor of physics from the University of Wisconsin thought that would be cool as well, and created an app to turn your smartphone into a cosmic ray detector that works in a similar way to those instruments found in high-tech observatories and mega-expensive laboratories. .. Continue Reading App turns a smartphone into a pocket-sized cosmic ray detector

Section: Science

Tags: Cosmic, Detector, Particle physics, Smartphones, University of Wisconsin

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