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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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APR 24, 2016Technology
In July of last year, Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that engineers were trying to make fly all the way aroun ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
Is Jupiter’s largest moon, Europia, hotter than astronomers originally predicted? Although the moon is far ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
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Yes, you can get vitamin D from a lot of different kinds of foods, such as your morning cereal. But, nothing compares to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have been searching for Planet Nine for eons. It’s something that we have yet to discover any solid evi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarf stars are somewhat of a mystery to scientists because we know so little about them. They’re significan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Physicist Stephen Hawking, along with billionaire Yuri Milner are proposing a new method of space travel that involves s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 10, 2016Cancer
An online intervention that asks women to reflect on their motivations for indoor tanning may make them more likely to s ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 10, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 09, 2016Videos
Skin is the largest organ in the human body. It plays an important role as the barrier between your important internal o ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetAPR 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
Did Mars become more habitable over time all thanks to the collisions it has endured from large space rocks like asteroi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 07, 2016Videos
Freckles on the face are often associated with youthfulness. Aside from the tops of the cheeks and nose, freckles can ap ...APR 04, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA recently spent some time using the Hubble Space Telescope to capture a massive portrait of our own Milky Way galaxy ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are deeply interested in figuring out whether or not there really is a ninth planet out there. Dubbed &lsquo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 27, 2016Space & Astronomy
As astronomers gaze into the distance, they sometimes get a chance to observe interesting things as they happen. One of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
Nine monstrous stars have been discovered in a distant star cluster, which has been given the name R136, by the Hubble S ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
It seems like astronomers are able to detect new exoplanets somewhere in the universe every couple of weeks, and it cont ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 21, 2016Plants & Animals
Here’s something you don’t see every day: an albino gray whale. One known to the region around Mexico as &ld ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 21, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not very often that astronomers get the chance to observe a star exploding in space. In fact, it’s even ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 16, 2016Videos
Have you ever wondered why scar tissue seems to have so many issues in the Sun with sunburns and doesn't seem to be able ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
On Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos collaborated to launch the ExoMars mission from the Baikonur Co ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2016Videos
A lot of what goes on in our bodies are within our control: we chose what to eat, how long to stay up, what environment ...MAR 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
Some parts of the world are in for a rare treat this week. On March 8th, or March 9th local time, locations surro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 04, 2016Cancer
Men who are deficient in vitamin D often have more aggressive prostate cancer at the time of surgery, according to a rec ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 24, 2016
Technology
In July of last year, Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that engineers were trying to make fly all the way aroun
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Is Jupiter’s largest moon, Europia, hotter than astronomers originally predicted? Although the moon is far
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have long had the interest in Earth-like exoplanets because it’s thought that exoplanets like Earth are
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 19, 2016
Videos
Yes, you can get vitamin D from a lot of different kinds of foods, such as your morning cereal. But, nothing compares to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have been searching for Planet Nine for eons. It’s something that we have yet to discover any solid evi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarf stars are somewhat of a mystery to scientists because we know so little about them. They’re significan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Physicist Stephen Hawking, along with billionaire Yuri Milner are proposing a new method of space travel that involves s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 10, 2016
Cancer
An online intervention that asks women to reflect on their motivations for indoor tanning may make them more likely to s
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 10, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 09, 2016
Videos
Skin is the largest organ in the human body. It plays an important role as the barrier between your important internal o
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
APR 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Did Mars become more habitable over time all thanks to the collisions it has endured from large space rocks like asteroi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 07, 2016
Videos
Freckles on the face are often associated with youthfulness. Aside from the tops of the cheeks and nose, freckles can ap
...
APR 04, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA recently spent some time using the Hubble Space Telescope to capture a massive portrait of our own Milky Way galaxy
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are deeply interested in figuring out whether or not there really is a ninth planet out there. Dubbed &lsquo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
As astronomers gaze into the distance, they sometimes get a chance to observe interesting things as they happen. One of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Nine monstrous stars have been discovered in a distant star cluster, which has been given the name R136, by the Hubble S
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It seems like astronomers are able to detect new exoplanets somewhere in the universe every couple of weeks, and it cont
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 21, 2016
Plants & Animals
Here’s something you don’t see every day: an albino gray whale. One known to the region around Mexico as &ld
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 21, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not very often that astronomers get the chance to observe a star exploding in space. In fact, it’s even
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 16, 2016
Videos
Have you ever wondered why scar tissue seems to have so many issues in the Sun with sunburns and doesn't seem to be able
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
On Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos collaborated to launch the ExoMars mission from the Baikonur Co
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2016
Videos
A lot of what goes on in our bodies are within our control: we chose what to eat, how long to stay up, what environment
...
MAR 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Some parts of the world are in for a rare treat this week. On March 8th, or March 9th local time, locations surro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 04, 2016
Cancer
Men who are deficient in vitamin D often have more aggressive prostate cancer at the time of surgery, according to a rec
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)