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Sun: is a star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth.
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DEC 21, 2016Health & Medicine
Sunlight gives us more than vitamin D, a new study shows. Through a completely separate pathway, sunlight prompts immune ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
One of the questions astronomers constantly ask is, “where did the solar system come from?” Image Credit: NA ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have spotted a beautifully tangled mess about 150 million light y ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our Solar System is continuous, and still, to no avail, but researchers aren’t giving up ye ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 09, 2016Cardiology
A daily dose of yoga could help prevent high blood pressure, a new study finds. Based on their research, scientists are ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 09, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
LA JOLLA, CA & JUPITER, FL – December 9, 2016 – New research led by scientists at The Scripps Research I ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)DEC 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
Mercury is one of the Solar System’s most mysterious planets, and it’s also the closest one of the Sun. Astr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 02, 2016Cancer
Good news for patients with early stage skin cancer: a combination drug seems to be effective at attacking the skin canc ...DEC 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 29, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Many people who think of the Sun quickly imagine a ball of fire in space, but the Sun isn’t fire at all. It’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 27, 2016Videos
Plants use sunlight in photosynthesis, but they also have a sort of sunscreen, a shield to protect themselves from sun o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta/Philae mission on comet 67P (a.k.a. Chury ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that astronomers get the chance to see stars forming in space, but it goes without saying that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 23, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
There is no such thing as perfect surgery, even if the surgery is considered to be routine. Indeed, a new FDA study foun ...NOV 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
In the Summer of 2015, a solar storm reportedly wreaked havoc on the Earth’s magnetic field. During the freak even ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
The internet was going wild this weekend after NASA’s STEREO satellites reportedly spotted a weird round object pa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
One thing has baffled astronomers for a long time, and that’s why the Moon is so far away from Earth and why it ha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 16, 2016Videos
Air pollution is something being addressed all over the world as we realize the effects of climate change on the environ ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA has been observing water loss in the Martian atmosphere for one full Martian year (687 Earth days) with the MAVEN m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA currently relies on the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the cosmos, but the next generation of space observation ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2016Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 21, 2016
Health & Medicine
Sunlight gives us more than vitamin D, a new study shows. Through a completely separate pathway, sunlight prompts immune
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One of the questions astronomers constantly ask is, “where did the solar system come from?” Image Credit: NA
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have spotted a beautifully tangled mess about 150 million light y
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our Solar System is continuous, and still, to no avail, but researchers aren’t giving up ye
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 09, 2016
Cardiology
A daily dose of yoga could help prevent high blood pressure, a new study finds. Based on their research, scientists are
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 09, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
LA JOLLA, CA & JUPITER, FL – December 9, 2016 – New research led by scientists at The Scripps Research I
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
DEC 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Mercury is one of the Solar System’s most mysterious planets, and it’s also the closest one of the Sun. Astr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not exactly easy to find perfectly round spatial bodies anywhere in our universe, and that has to do with the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 02, 2016
Cancer
Good news for patients with early stage skin cancer: a combination drug seems to be effective at attacking the skin canc
...
DEC 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are always looking for Earth-like exoplanets outside of our Solar System because they may hold the key ingre
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 29, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no real mystery how stars in space form, but perhaps what still is a mystery is how those supermassive stars
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Many people who think of the Sun quickly imagine a ball of fire in space, but the Sun isn’t fire at all. It’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 27, 2016
Videos
Plants use sunlight in photosynthesis, but they also have a sort of sunscreen, a shield to protect themselves from sun o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta/Philae mission on comet 67P (a.k.a. Chury
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that astronomers get the chance to see stars forming in space, but it goes without saying that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 23, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
There is no such thing as perfect surgery, even if the surgery is considered to be routine. Indeed, a new FDA study foun
...
NOV 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In the Summer of 2015, a solar storm reportedly wreaked havoc on the Earth’s magnetic field. During the freak even
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The internet was going wild this weekend after NASA’s STEREO satellites reportedly spotted a weird round object pa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
One thing has baffled astronomers for a long time, and that’s why the Moon is so far away from Earth and why it ha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 16, 2016
Videos
Air pollution is something being addressed all over the world as we realize the effects of climate change on the environ
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA has been observing water loss in the Martian atmosphere for one full Martian year (687 Earth days) with the MAVEN m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The closest star system to Earth’s own is the Alpha Centauri system, which is just over four light years away. Ast
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA currently relies on the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the cosmos, but the next generation of space observation
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Space & Astronomy
There’s a new kind of star in town, and apparently it's not nice and round like our Sun. Using data obt
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard