A team of scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia have turned to trees in an effort to discover more about mysterious and potentially devastating radioactive space storms that have hit earth several times over the past 10,000 years.
The team of researchers included an undergraduate student and was led by Benjamin Pope from the University of Queensland’s School of Mathematics and Physics. They analyzed the rings from millennia-old trees.
The researchers say radiation storms—known as Miyake events after the Japanese scientist who discovered them—have occurred approximately once every thousand years and prompt energetic spikes in Earth’s radiation level….