Solar Storm

From Science Mag A violent, active sun, as seen in ultraviolet light in October 2014near solar maximum in its 11-year solar cycle. As the sun approaches solar minimum, scientists are trying to predict the timing and strength of the next solar maximum. NASA/…

The calm before the storms

By Sarah ScolesMay. 30, 2019 , 2:00 PM BOULDER, COLORADOFor all of February the sun is nearly spotless, a smooth circle filled in with a goldenrod crayon. It has been more than a decade since it was so lacking in sunspotsdark magnetic knots as big as Earth t…

During the Apollo lunar missions and landings 50 years ago, there was a real risk of losing a crew during each mission. For the launch phase, the risk was relatively small due to an effective launch abort system with an escape tower. During the passage to the…

Published in May 2019 (Issue 108) | 4266 words © 2016 by Max Gladstone. Originally published in The Grimm Future, edited by Erin Underwood. Reprinted by permission of the author. The boy stopped playing after his Mom and Dad chained the iron man to the Kin…

Published in May 2019 (Issue 108) | 4266 words © 2016 by Max Gladstone. Originally published in The Grimm Future, edited by Erin Underwood. Reprinted by permission of the author. The boy stopped playing after his Mom and Dad chained the iron man to the Kin…

650 Rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza in an attempt to overwhelm Israels Iron Dome: 173 intercepts, 4 people killed and 28 wounded. What is @IllhanMN response to this violence? Will she condemn it? - Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson, on …

Incredible footage has captured colourful auroras lighting up the night sky across Australia.  Lucky stargazers in certain parts of the country were able to catch a glimpse of Aurora Australis - also known as southern lights - on Wednesday night.   The natu…

A nearly complete lower jaw bone of a mastodon is displayed at the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository.  (Photo: Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen) Alabama Selma: The federal government is giving the city a $1 million emergency grant to combat vi…

South Canterbury was treated to a night-sky show this week as the Aurora Australis, the southern version of the famous Aurora Borealis or northern lights, was sighted further north than usual. Timaru-based astrophotographer Paul Stewart caught the display o…