The University of Central Florida has detected what could be its first planet, only two-thirds the size of Earth and located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33 light- years away.
Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But life on Earth is substantially different from, well, almost everywhere else.
Unlike last week's X-Class solar flare, the one today threw out a coronal mass ejection.
The Native American population spans from Barrow all the way to the southern tip of Chile, from west coast to the east coast of two continents. Now, a new study shows that the people that populated this vast area came in three waves.