Posts Tagged ‘aurora’
Today’s physics news: Thursday, 29 July 2010
Scientists erupt as Browne calls for spending switch towards engineering Ex-BP chief calls for review of £4bn budget Financial Times Ignorance lays Parliament open to ‘nonsense debates’ Many MPs do not get involved in science policy because the issues take them “seriously outside their comfort zone”, a senior parliamentarian has admitted. THE Aurora [...]
Man-made aurora to help predict space weather
For more than twenty five years our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions about how nitrogen, the most abundant gas in our atmosphere, reacts when it collides with electrons produced by energetic ultraviolet sunlight and ‘solar wind’. New research published today in IOP Publishing’s Journal of Physics B: Atomic, [...]
