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Radioactive Traces in Tree Rings Reveal Earth’s History of ‘Radiation Storms’

Benjamin Pope 27/10/2022

In 2012, Fusa Miyake discovered a big spike in...

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Just How Big Can Solar Flares Get, and Are We Ready?

Christopher Crockett, Knowable 20/09/2021

A 21st century repeat of the sort of coronal...

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Antarctic Telescope Finds Sign of Strange Phenomenon Predicted 60 Years Ago

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/03/2021

In a boost to the Standard Model of particle...

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Studies of the Sun Suggest Our Star’s Magnetic Field Is Becoming Weaker

Janardhan P. 04/11/2020

Studies are showing that we may be headed for...

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The Inconvenient Truth About Quantum Computing

Viraj Kulkarni 29/09/2020

Nobody has figured out exactly how we are going...

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In the Latest Gravitational Wave Signal, a New Music Meets an Old Prediction

P. Ajith, K.G. Arun and Anand Sengupta 29/04/2020

The collision happened a little over two billion lightyears...

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How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon

Margarita Safonova 09/06/2019

Some people believe we never went to the Moon...