Enlarge / Cosmic rays showering down on Earth’s atmosphere are the basis of a new wireless alternative system to GPS navigation.2015 Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka
GPS is now a mainstay of daily life, helping us with determining locations, navigation, tracking, mapping, and timing across a broad spectrum of applications. But it does have a few shortcomings, most notably not being able to pass through buildings, rocks, or water. That’s why Japanese researchers have developed an alternative wireless navigation system that relies on cosmic rays, or muons, instead of radio waves, according to a new paper published in the journal iScience. The
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