By TAKAHIRO TAKENOUCHI/ Staff Writer
July 20, 2023 at 08:00 JST
An image, right, and illustration of a test show how cosmic-ray muons that can pass through buildings and solid rock are used and detected. Researchers say the data could be applied to car navigation systems. (Provided by Hiroyuki Tanaka, a professor of elementary particle physics at the University of Tokyo)
Japanese researchers developed a system based on subatomic particles derived from high-energy cosmic rays to locate a person's position underground, something that existing navigation tools like GPS are unable to do. [Read More]
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