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Lizards' Basking in the Sun Boosts Vitamin D

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 - 15:50:07 - Ehud Rattner

Keeping warm isn't the only reason lizards and other cold-blooded critters bask in the sun. According to a study published in the May/June issue of...

Solar Systems Around Dead Suns?

Monday, April 20th, 2009 - 17:54:15 - Ehud Rattner

Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of...

Giant Laser Experiment Powers Up

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - 16:22:08 - Sarah Gingichashvili

The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun. The US National Ignition Facility...

Striking a Solar Balance
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 - Sarah GIngichashvili
Planet Earth is an oasis of life, but without the Sun our home planet would be a drastically different, inhospitable place...

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Giant Solar Twists Detected

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 - 16:27:29 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists at Queen's University have made a finding that will help us to understand more about the turbulent solar weather and its effect on our...

Wild Weather on a Star-Skimming Planet

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - 14:35:02 - Anuradha Menon

What would happen if, for a single day, the sun's light and heat were amplified a thousand times? While this sounds like the setup for a classic tale...

NASA'S Telescope Unveils a Dozen New Pulsars

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 18:40:14 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are...

The Magnetic Sun-Earth Connection
Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher
A Goddard Space Flight Center physicist and other researchers have revealed more about the sun-earth connection via a...