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How Earth’s Magnetic Field Twists and Buckles During Solar Storms
Declassified Vietnam War files are showing researchers the unpredictable nature of the Sun and helping them work toward predicting the next big solar storm. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… » Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2Z7LHgi Travelling at the near-speed of light, energetic particles shooting out from the Sun can zip through space, smack into our planet’s atmosphere, and cause incredible disruptions. And one of the biggest impacts we know of happened during the tail end of the Vietnam War. On this episode of Focal Point, we hear from Delores Knipp, a space weather scientist and former officer in the U.S. Air Force who uncovered a war mystery that is…
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Can We Sleep On Demand?
http://www.weforum.org/ Inadequate sleep is related to a wide range of problems, from depression to obesity. Dan Yang, Professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses our increasing understanding of the neuronal circuits involved in sleep: one day, it could become possible to control these circuits, creating “sleep on demand”. Watch the full Davos IdeasLab session here: http://bit.ly/2eB45qQ Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
