Solar Storm

Stockholm -- The writing on a famous Viking-era runestone may reflect fears of an approaching climate disaster in 9th century Scandinavia, according to new research by a team of Swedish academics. The Rok stone, located near Lake Vattern in central Sweden,…

A famed Viking relic known as the Rök stone tells of a heart-broken parent's crippling fear that the cold-weather that robbed their child of life may return, experts claim.  Fresh analysis of the mysterious runic inscription claims it speaks of an enduring b…

The Rök stone, raised in the ninth century near the Lake Vättern in south-central Sweden, bears the longest runic inscription in the world with more than 700 runes covering its five sides. It is believed to have been erected as a memorial to a dead son, but …

New Thoughts on Translation of Viking Runestone

IMAGE: Rök runes. view more  Credit: Helge Andersson Several passages on the Rök stone - the world's most famous Viking Age runic monument - suggest that the inscription is about battles and for over a hundred years, researchers have been trying to connec…

One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia, a new study said Wednesday. The Rok stone, raised in the ninth century near the lake Vattern in south…

The magnetosphere is the main force protecting Earth from the powerful solar radiation which constantly bombards our planet. Without it, our planet would quickly become an uninhabitable wasteland.Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have d…

The latest defense authorization bill signed into law by President Trump on Dec. 20 contains new measures requiring the federal government to protect the nation from the danger of nuclear-blast-produced electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks and similar solar-pr…

As excerpted from Acausal Drift: An Oral History of Machine Sentience, Second Edition. It all started with the solar flare. I do mean all of it—the story I’m about to tell, and the revolution of sorts that sprang from it, and my life, such as it is. I was s…

While inspecting a three-year-old footage of the Arctic sky, a NASA intern discovered a new type of aurora. A video from Norway offers a glimpse of the aurora twisting in unusual patterns. Usually, aurorae dance across the sky when lots of high-energy partic…