One of Ukraine's most popular sites, it was started by Georgiy Gongadze, the journalist infamously kidnapped and murdered in 2000 for - it is widely believed - his outspoken criticism of the authorities at the time.
In 1966 Kenneth Greisen, Vadim Kuzmin and Georgiy Zatsepin showed that high-energy charged particles (cosmic rays are mostly atomic nuclei, and thus positively charged) should be slowed by collisions with the photons of the cosmic microwave background (radiation left over from the Big Bang that permeates all space).