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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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OCT 25, 2016Videos
What, exactly, is albinism? Albinism is a collective term for many loosely related conditions. Everyone with albinism ma ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 24, 2016Videos
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Typically, we find supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, just like we find other entities of space in cer ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 14, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found something really strange inside a star system 1,200 light years away. The host ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to study systems from other galaxies, considering they’re so ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 09, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
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According to the American Cancer Society approximately 5.4 million basal and squamous cell skin cancer cases arise each ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA is getting pretty excited after the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope found what appear to be jets of wat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 25, 2016Space & Astronomy
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is almost the same size as the dwarf planet itself is, and has a red-colored patch o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
Proxima b is believed to be an Earth-like neighbor from the Proxima Centauri system, which is around 4.25 light years aw ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2016Videos
NASA has captured a very interesting double eclipse from its solar dynamics observatory (SDO) and compiled a video out o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 20, 2016Videos
Scientists made a startling discovery about our planet in 1974. They found that chemicals common in spray cans, known as ...SEP 20, 2016Space & Astronomy
Looking all around in interstellar space surrounding our solar system, scientists are finding more evidence of brown dwa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 19, 2016Microbiology
Drought is not an unusual phenomenon. California experienced years of drought conditions and many places in the American ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are now very interested in what could be one of the slowest pulsars ever discovered, reportedly spinning tho ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
It is understood that Mars was probably once a water hole with tons of rivers and streams of running water, but after it ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
International astronomers based in Italy have had their eyes on a distant star cluster discovered more than four decades ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been observing the Sun with various kinds of equipment for ages to get a better understanding of how it ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 15, 2016Cancer
Does higher sun protection factor (SPF) really offer more protection against the sun’s rays? Though this seems lik ...SEP 14, 2016Videos
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be struck by lightning? Let us just give you a hint... it's not very pleasant. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 09, 2016Chemistry & Physics
This week, the Daldykan River in northern Russia ran red. Social media posts called it the “River of Blood” ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
OCT 25, 2016
Videos
What, exactly, is albinism? Albinism is a collective term for many loosely related conditions. Everyone with albinism ma
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 24, 2016
Videos
Palm oil is used for food products, detergents, cosmetics and - increasingly - biofuel. It's in your shampoo, your ice c
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Typically, we find supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, just like we find other entities of space in cer
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found something really strange inside a star system 1,200 light years away. The host
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It isn’t very often that we get the opportunity to study systems from other galaxies, considering they’re so
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 09, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Vitamin D deficiency impacts millions of men, women and children globally. Children that are born with very low levels o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
While we understand that planets can form relatively close to their host stars by way of generating a core first and the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2016
Videos
According to the American Cancer Society approximately 5.4 million basal and squamous cell skin cancer cases arise each
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In a nearby star system dubbed TW Hydra, astronomers are keeping their eyes on a disk formation of dust and gas particle
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA is getting pretty excited after the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope found what appear to be jets of wat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is almost the same size as the dwarf planet itself is, and has a red-colored patch o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Proxima b is believed to be an Earth-like neighbor from the Proxima Centauri system, which is around 4.25 light years aw
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2016
Videos
NASA has captured a very interesting double eclipse from its solar dynamics observatory (SDO) and compiled a video out o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2016
Videos
Scientists made a startling discovery about our planet in 1974. They found that chemicals common in spray cans, known as
...
SEP 20, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Looking all around in interstellar space surrounding our solar system, scientists are finding more evidence of brown dwa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2016
Microbiology
Drought is not an unusual phenomenon. California experienced years of drought conditions and many places in the American
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are now very interested in what could be one of the slowest pulsars ever discovered, reportedly spinning tho
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It is understood that Mars was probably once a water hole with tons of rivers and streams of running water, but after it
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
International astronomers based in Italy have had their eyes on a distant star cluster discovered more than four decades
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have been observing the Sun with various kinds of equipment for ages to get a better understanding of how it
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 15, 2016
Cancer
Does higher sun protection factor (SPF) really offer more protection against the sun’s rays? Though this seems lik
...
SEP 14, 2016
Videos
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be struck by lightning? Let us just give you a hint... it's not very pleasant.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 09, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
This week, the Daldykan River in northern Russia ran red. Social media posts called it the “River of Blood”
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis