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The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

(PhysOrg.com) -- When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (88) | comments 175 | with audio podcast

Radioactive decay rates vary with the sun's rotation: research

Radioactive decay rates, thought to be unique physical constants and counted on in such fields as medicine and anthropology, may be more variable than once thought.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 40 | with audio podcast

Scientists find errors in hypothesis linking solar flares to global temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of climate science is nothing if not complex, where a host of variables interact with each other in intricate ways to produce various changes. Just like any other area of science, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (49) | comments 81 | with audio podcast feature

A big surprise from the edge of the solar system: magnetic bubbles (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'

The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (37) | comments 57

NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (29) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers build Moon garden

The Moon is not the most hospitable place for growing fruits and vegetables. The lack of atmosphere and natural water, extreme temperatures, and exposure to cosmic rays present some serious challenges for ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Global eruption rocks the sun

On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some

The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 10

Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission

For some years now, an unorthodox idea has been gaining favor among astronomers. It contradicts old teachings and unsettles thoughtful observers, especially climatologists.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Solar Mystery Solved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are amongst the most dangerous cosmic phenomena man has ever known. Though they pose no harm to humans, their effect on technology is vast. When they occur, they possess the capability ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8 weblog

Fermi's Large Area Telescope sees surprising flares in Crab Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbors in the winter sky, is shocking scientists with a propensity for fireworks—gamma-ray flares set off by the most energetic ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak

Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 8

New Solar Cycle Prediction

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 16

2012: Killer solar flares are a physical impossibility

(PhysOrg.com) -- Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather – great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun – ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

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