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Cosmic rays beyond the knees

The development of a radio technique for detecting cosmic rays casts fresh light on the origins of some of these accelerated particles, and suggests that they might have travelled much farther than was previously thought. See Letter p.70

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Figure 1: The energy spectrum of cosmic rays.

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Taylor, A. Cosmic rays beyond the knees. Nature 531, 43–44 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/531043a

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