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  "id": 7342240,
  "title": "Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/physicists-zoom-into-the-birth-of-cosmic-rainstorms-with-new-cern-7342240",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-14T15:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
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    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-physicists-birth-cosmic-rainstorms-cern.html"
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  "summary": "Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter, constantly strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere. The impacts break them apart into a shower of particles that rain to the ground.",
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        "outlet": "The Conversation",
        "title": "Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/physicists-zoom-into-the-birth-of-cosmic-rainstorms-with-new-cern",
        "published": "2026-09-14T13:07:51.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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