The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has led the international team behind a new study ...

Solar cycle space weather models may be miscalibrated: a new helioseismology study found the Sun’s magnetic activity has retreated toward its surface since 1987 in ways sunspot counts never detected.

For all we’re learning about the distant cosmos, there’s still much we don’t understand about things much closer to us, like the Sun. It’s difficult to investigate something as big and hot as the Sun ...

Every 11 years, the Sun flips its magnetic poles, driving a cycle of sunspot eruptions, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections that can knock out power grids and fry satellites. For decades, ...

In a grandfather clock, a pendulum swings back and forth and this periodic motion is maintained using the energy stored in ...

The Sun's internal 'biorhythm' – which plays a critical role in the space weather we experience on Earth – has mysteriously ...

"It’s not completely clear what the impact of this winter’s El Niño will be," writes Our Ocean Backyard columnist Gary Griggs, "but all signs to date are indicating a major event." ...

Chinese scientists have developed a crystal that produces ultraviolet light at a record 145.2 nanometers — meeting a key ...

Scientists spotted patterns hours before a major solar flare, a discovery that could help forecast dangerous eruptions.

During sleep, the brain’s night-time rhythms may help protect against dementia, a new review highlights. Image credit: Irina Polonina/Stocksy We all need to sleep to maintain health and wellbeing, and ...

A monolithic 1,200-V silicon snubber circuit from Melexis is designed to drive up the performance of SiC power modules used ...