Atmosphere acts as heat shield for solar storms. New data from a NASA spacecraft confirm that a region of the Earth's upper... [spacetoday.net]

Interesting, as debris form solar storms impact the upper magnetosphere, they create electricity that in turn interferes with the functioning of satellites.

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Professor Uses Comics to Teach Physics. Is Spider-Man's web really strong enough to support him? The man to ask is University of Minnesota physics Prof. Jim Kakalios. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Science]

Hey! You got science in my comics! Knock that off! Seriously though, it is very cool to see a teacher force their students to think about how something might work, and if it was feasable or not.

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