A study by the University of Queensland has revealed new insights into the cosmic radiation storms that have occurred approximately once every thousand years.
Known as a Miyake event, the storms cause a rapid rise in carbon-14 due to huge radioactive cosmic bursts.
A team led by Dr Benjamin Pope from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics applied cutting edge statistics to data from millennia-old trees.
UQ undergraduate maths student Qingyuan Zhang developed software to analyse every available piece of data on tree rings. “Because you can count a tree’s rings to identify its…
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