{"id":32271,"date":"2011-03-06T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/news-roundup-why-the-sun-lost-its-spots-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T16:43:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:43:37","slug":"news-roundup-why-the-sun-lost-its-spots-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/news-roundup-why-the-sun-lost-its-spots-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup: Why the Sun Lost Its Spots | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2011\/03\/03\/news-roundup-why-the-sun-lost-its-spots\/sdosunweb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27014 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72ac2_SDOSunWeb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"301\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>While modeling plasma flows deep inside the sun, scientists <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2011\/03\/flow-from-the-poles-drive-sunspot-levels.ars\">may have found an explanation<\/a> for why some sunspots cycles (like the most recent one) are weaker than others. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the flow speed during the cycle before that seems to dictate the number of sunspots. Having a fast flow from the poles while a cycle is ramping up, followed by a slow flow during its decline, results in a very deep minimum.&rdquo;<br>Risky business: In defending <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/04\/15\/obama-lays-out-bold-and-visionary-revised-space-policy\/\">President Obama&rsquo;s vision for space exploration<\/a> that relies upon commercial space companies, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-03-unafraid-commercial-spaceflight-nasa.html\">NASA administrator Charles Bolden says<\/a> the country must &ldquo;become unafraid of exploration. We need to become unafraid of risks.&rdquo;<br>Bad timing: Just as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2011\/03\/02\/so-did-tech-lovers-get-they-wanted-with-apples-ipad-2\/\">Apple unveils its new iPad<\/a>&mdash;and Steve Jobs uses the opportunity to gloat about his company&rsquo;s superiority in apps compared to Google&rsquo;s Android system&mdash;Google had to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/technologylive\/post\/2011\/03\/poisoned-android-apps-taken-down-from-official-company-store\/1\">take 21 apps off the Android Market<\/a> because they were infected with malware.<br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/wonderland\/2011\/03\/03\/mistakes-were-made-inside-your-brain\/\">The journals of Harvey Cushing<\/a>, the father of neurosurgery, include admirable documentation of his own mistakes&mdash;giving medical historians a window into the birth of modern surgery around the turn of the 20th ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iJIpAH5xpwP5zc87DMRZsnwcnJA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72ac2_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iJIpAH5xpwP5zc87DMRZsnwcnJA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72ac2_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72ac2_0aCtyO8HvQs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72ac2_JACE-07GJY8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While modeling plasma flows deep inside the sun, scientists may have found an explanation for why some sunspots cycles (like the most recent one) are weaker than others. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the flow speed during the cycle before that seems to dictate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/news-roundup-why-the-sun-lost-its-spots-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}