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Spacewatch: Solar maximum

There is no greater influence on the Earth and its space environment than that of our local star, the Sun. The level of solar activity, as indicated most clearly by the number of sunspots, ebbs and flows over an average cycle of 11 years as does the frequency of solar flares. Such energetic outbursts can blast the Earth with X-rays and UV and drive solar material earthwards to produce aurorae and...

Guardian Books podcast: Science, religion and the paranormal

Why, in the age of Richard Dawkins's God Delusion, has one of our leading writers on genetics devoted himself to a book investigating the Bible's scientific credentials? And what explanations can science offer for people who had limbs amputated under the influence of 19th-century mesmerists?We investigate these and other issues with Steve Jones, the geneticist and science writer, whose latest...


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