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  1. 19449

    Your article says that sunspots are 3,500°C. Yet further in the article, it says that the solar flare of Nov. 4, 2003, was 41 million°C. Is that a typographical error? Bruce BarnbaumGranite Falls, Wash. That’s no typo. The release of magnetic energy in the sun’s atmosphere during a flare heats the material that’s been ejected […]

    By Science News
  2. Earth

    Parting Shots

    Data collected during an 18-day barrage of major solar flares late last year—including a record-setting coronal mass ejection on Nov. 4—will help scientists refine models of flare formation and behavior.

    By Sid Perkins

  3. 19448

    I just read “Deception Detection” and I must say that I am surprised that no one used high-limit poker players to analyze if a person is bluffing.