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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…

Fresh findings about the edge of Earth's atmosphere are puzzling scientists affiliated with two missions that launched this year, and then some. This zone, at an altitude of roughly 50 to 400 miles (80 to 645 kilometers), is full of strange physical phenom…

The three young planets orbit the star Kepler 51 roughly 2,600 light-years away and are roughly the size of Jupiter but are so incredibly low-density that they boast less than one percent of its mass. To put things in perspective, they have a density of less …

A research group from Graz investigated how solar storms can be simulated in order to enable a more accurate prediction of their effects on the Earth. Their work has furnished a more accurate model for simulating solar storms in real time. The sun is an extr…

Skip to comments. Earth Enters Unknown as Magnetic North Pole Continues Push Toward Russia, Crosses Greenwich MeridianSputniknews.com ^ | 15:08 13.12.2019 (updated 15:42 13.12.2019) | Staff Posted on 12/13/2019 2:22:18 PM PST by Red Badger Earlier thi…