Smartphone network could track incoming cosmic rays
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
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.