Largest Solar Radiation Storm Since 2003
News from Discovery News:
As the Earth’s magnetic field begins to calm after several days of intense geomagnetic activity, the NOAA has announced that we experienced the largest solar radiation storm since 2003.
“Earlier, it was stated that the current Solar Radiation Storm was the largest since May 2005,” said Tuesday’s announcement on the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center’s Facebook page. “After the arrival of the CME earlier today … this is now the largest Solar Radiation Storm since October 2003 (The Halloween Storms).”
Although this solar storm is subsiding, there’s little doubt that more will come.
BIG PIC: Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway
As the sun increases in activity toward “solar maximum” (predicted to occur in 2013), we can expect more intense solar storms over the coming months. Magnetic activity is burs……………. continues on Discovery News
Mind-Bending Science Fuels Red Lights
“Mechanisms of perception fascinate me because they allow you to talk about science and academy, but also about staging and illusionists,” Cortés said. “The brain is not a tool you can trust to perceive reality…. It basically lies.
Read more on Wired News (blog)
Can Science Teach a Thing or Two to Nature?
There is so much controversy in the whole science of vaccination. It will not be a good idea to promote the idea of asking mothers not to breast feed their babies around vaccinations. In essence, if the mother is breast feeding for only a few months …
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Dogs were man’s best friend 33000 years ago
News from Telegraph.co.uk:
A pair of dog skulls uncovered in digs in Siberia and Belgium, each 33,000 years old, show dogs were domesticated long before any other animal, including sheep, cows or goats.
The skulls had shorter snouts and wider jaws than wild animals, such as wolves, which use their long snouts to hunt. It suggests dogs were used for companionship and protection.
Scientists used carbon dating to determine the age of the skulls, then examined the bone structures.
“Both the Belgian find and the Siberian find are domesticated species based on morphological characteristics,” said Greg Hodgins, researcher at the University of Arizona’s Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Lab.
“Essentially, wolves have long thin snouts and their teeth are not crowded, and domestication results in this shortening of the snout and widening of the jaws and crowding of the teeth.
“The interesting thing is that typically we think of domestication as being cows, sheep and goats, things that produce food through meat or secondary agricultural products such as milk, cheese and wool and things like that.
“Those are different relationships than humans may have with dogs. The dogs are not necessarily providing products or meat. They are probably providing protection, companionship and perha……………. continues on Telegraph.co.uk
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