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The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations ...

The first rumblings of the Sun's next 11-year solar cycle have been detected in sound waves inside our home star -- even though it is only halfway through its current one. This existing cycle is now ...

Thanks to new calculations by a Dartmouth geochemist, scientists are now looking at the earth’s climate history in a new light. Mukul Sharma, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, ...

OH, YEAH. GREAT. YEAH, I KNOW. BUT THEY PASS THROUGH, RIGHT? AND THEN THE SUN POPS OUT AFTER IT’S KIND OF THE PATTERN THAT WE ARE IN. BUT JUST A HEADS UP ABOUT TODAY, THAT PATTERN CONTINUES. BUT A FEW ...