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Space

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice

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Space

Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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A light micrograph of plaques in someone with lupus

Health

Discovery of a genetic cause of lupus could lead to new treatments

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This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures

Space

We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa’s surface formed

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Magnetosphere

Physics

Earth’s magnetosphere replicated in miniature using lasers and magnets

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Main ? Voyager 2 view of Neptune, captured in August 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Space

Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming

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A solar power plant at night

Technology

Solar panels that work at night produce enough power to charge a phone

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Inside a mouse pancreatic tumour and the red bits are the Listeria bacteria delivering the tetanus to the tumour cells.

Health

Pancreatic cancer treated in mice by loading tumour cells with tetanus

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space satellite with solar panels

Environment

UK government backs plan to harvest solar power from space

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Technology

Static electricity can keep desert solar panels free of dust

Dust drastically lowers the output of solar panels, but applying an electric field to the panels can make dust particles repel each other and disperse

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Health

We seem to find people with a strong immune system more attractive

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Space

Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought

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Space

We may now know why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue

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Health

Vitamin D supplements really do reduce risk of autoimmune disease

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