‘SPECIAL REPORTS’ Archives

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“Locked in Key: Love & Light”

“Ryan Anderson sits at a desk in his home studio, tinkering away on his laptop and occasionally twisting a knob on the nearby mixer. He’s playing a remix of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” a track his partner in musical endeavors, Matt Madonna, created about seven months earlier when the two best friends first formed their DJ collaboration Love and Light. . . .”

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“Science encroaching on Mayan prophecy”

“Space physicists have finished assembling a second complete sweep around the sky, and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has again delivered an unexpected result. ‘The map has changed significantly. . . . Our discovery of changes over six months in the IBEX data from the edge of our solar system show that the interaction of our Sun and the galaxy is amazingly dynamic,’ says David McComas (Southwest Research Institute), principal investigator for the IBEX mission. ‘We thought the outer heliosphere would be stable over time – and IBEX is showing us that it’s not. This is changing the game completely.’”

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“Lighten Up!”

“Should we stay out of the summer sun? Not at all, according to a growing group of physicians. Sunlight can be good for you.”

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New Video Clips of Solar Flares and Solar Winds

These clips indicate recent events have opened questions and mysteries felt by the hard science 3-D guys. While we probably aren’t as surprised at the power of the New Sun, these images and visualization technologies are really cool. Enjoy.
Thomas S. Lee