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A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that plasma waves known as Alfvén waves inject energy into the solar wind as it leaves the sun’s outer atmosphere, potentially explaining why the solar wind is so much hotter and faster than heliophysicists expect, researchers report August 29 in Science. The findings provide “a very strong indication that Alfvén waves can heat and accelerate the solar wind,” says Jean Perez, a plasma physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology in…
When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, turned to vaccines targeting the closely related smallpox virus to curb its spread. Yet it wasn’t until 2024 that Africa, the continent where the virus emerged and first began spreading among people, received its first doses. On September 13, the World Health Organization authorized a smallpox vaccine called Jynneos, made by Danish pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic, for use to tackle growing mpox outbreaks — an administrative move meant to speed distribution. Nigeria had received 10,000 doses on August 27…
Transcript James McCall: Solar production in the US really started to pick up around 2012. As solar really became mainstream, there was a lot more concerns of land use changes. Sujith Ravi: If you look at the type of land that’s been converted for solar installations, over 60 percent of those landscapes are converted croplands. Chong Seok Choi: They both require flat areas with a lot of sun, and that’s close to transmission infrastructures. So in this context, it is important for us to figure out how to combine farming and solar power production so that both can exist in…
Black smoke rises from Lebanon’s Beirut skylineFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsIsrael bombed targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Sunday ahead of the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks.Late on Sunday night, Beirut’s southern suburbs came under renewed Israeli bombing with large fireballs and loud booms over the darkened skyline. Air raid sirens blared in Israel’s north including the city of Haifa.Palestinian officials said a strike on a mosque in Gaza killed at least 19 people.Rocket sirens…
It was an emotional third victory for Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla) at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, with the Australian dedicating the win to his grandmother, who passed away in the week before the race. A beaming Matthews held up three fingers over the finish line after securing another victory in Québec with a brutal, grinding sprint launched at the 300 metres to go mark, but was in a reflective frame of mind as he pointed to the sky on the podium.”This one is for my Grandma who passed away last Wednesday. I watched her funeral online here in Quebec two…
For the first time this season, the Baltimore Ravens will find themselves standing opposite a fellow AFC North team. The Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals clash in a pivotal divisional contest between bitter rivals. The Ravens swept the matchup last season with 27-24 and 34-20 wins over Cincinnati. Both teams enter Sunday’s matchup with some momentum. The Bengals (1-3) earned their first win of the season in Week 4 with a 34-24 victory over the Carolina Panthers, while Baltimore (2-2) has won two in a row, including a dominant 35-10 win over the previously undefeated Buffalo Bills. Here are three things…
The Jets (2-3) nipped at the Vikings’ (5-0) heels for most of the second half but couldn’t overcome a 17-point first-half deficit and lost 23-17. Playing a “home” game in London in front of 61,139 fans, the Vikings found their comfort zone early while grabbing a 17-0 advantage. But the Jets, outgained 155 to 99 in the first half, grabbed some hope heading into intermission and nearly pulled off a comeback that ended on the Minnesota 9-yard line. Aaron Rodgers, who finished the game 29-of-54 for 244 yards and 2 touchdowns, was picked off three times, including on the Jets’…
Shohei Ohtani made his long-awaited postseason debut on Saturday. He did not disappoint crushing a 3-run home run in the bottom of the second inning to spark the Los Angeles Dodgers to a come from behind 7-5 victory over the San Diego Padres in Game 1 of their divisional round series. The Dodgers collected 10 hits in all as they overcame a poor playoff debut from Yoshinobu Yamamoto and won a playoff game for the first time in two years. They were swept in the NLDS last year by the Arizona Diamondbacks.It took Ohtani 875 games to make his playoff…
Canyon-SRAM has confirmed one-year contract extensions for Ricarda Bauernfeind and Antonia Niedermaier, with both continuing with the Women’s WorldTour squad through 2025. The German duo began their careers together in 2022 on the Canyon-SRAM Generation development team.Both riders scored their first Grand Tour victories in 2023 and followed through this season with more contributions to the team to showcase their growing individual talents. The 21-year-old Niedermaier, who won stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Donne in 2023 with a 24-kilometre solo attack, followed with sixth overall and second in the youth classification at this year’s event. She also took sixth overall at the…
The Baltimore Orioles have four players on the All-MLB ballot, with fan voting set to conclude on Oct. 11. Those four players are starting pitcher Corbin Burnes, shortstop Gunnar Henderson, catcher Adley Rutschman and outfielder Anthony Santander.The Orioles have had just three All-MLB players in the short history of the award, all of which were last year. Rutschman and reliever Félix Bautista made the first team while starting pitcher Kyle Bradish made the second team. Bautista missed the entire season due to Tommy John surgery, which he had in 2023. Bradish missed most of the season with an elbow injury…