CERN Courier - December 2018English | True PDF | 31 Pages | 10.15 MB
Cosmic rays, being relatively easy to detect using inexpensive equipment, offer an ideal outreach and educational tool. Two projects described in this issue – Polarquest2018 and Clean2Antartica, which stem from existing networks of cosmic-ray detectors installed on high-school rooftops in Italy and the Netherlands – are taking cosmic-ray experiments to polar latitudes for the benefit of science, education and the environment.