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Recent Archives
Conserving Helium
Global helium resources are dwindling, and there’ll be no substitute if we run out.
Podcast
Space Research Update: the 11-year solar storm cycle returns, the MESSENGER spacecraft reports back from Mercury, and the search for intelligent life in the universe continues with the help of your computer. Also: Unique animal and plant adaptations.
This week’s web links:
Space Weather Network: www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN;
Latest MESSENGER photographs of Mercury: messenger.jhuapl.edu;
Sign up for SETI@Home: setiathome.berkeley.edu
Solar Storm Roundup
Early sun spots forecast rough weather ahead during new eleven-year solar storm cycle.
Parasitic Butterflies
Butterflies use chemical signals to fool ants into raising their young.