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The Most Violent Solar Storm Ever Detected Hit Earth in 12350 BCE Space 5 hours ago

3 days ago · Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are common when the Sun is in the most active phase of its 11-year cycle, as it is now.The most powerful flare of the current cycle was …

Physicists Guanming Liang and Robert Caldwell picture a newborn cosmos sizzling with massless particles zooming about at high speed – a form of matter that has more in common with light …

Feb 11, 2025 · Under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, humanity is seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep planetary heating to no more than …

2 days ago · For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standard cosmological model. Although all observations support the expanding Universe model, …

5 days ago · "Our results show that the injury parts in all leaves were significantly brighter than the uninjured parts of the leaves during all 16 hours of imaging," the researchers report.. …

Apr 23, 2025 · For the first time, humans might have glimpsed a rainbow of color that lies just beyond our sight – including a "blue-green of unprecedented saturation". You've never seen it …

3 days ago · Physical inactivity costs the UK an estimated £7.4 billion each year – but more importantly, it costs lives. In today's increasingly sedentary world, sitting too much is raising …

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