NewsPronto

 
The Times


.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Scientists at work: space balloons and charged particles above the Arctic Circle

  • Written by The Conversation

Authors: The Conversation

imageLaunching a space balloon in Sweden.Alexa Halford, CC BY-ND

I research space weather. That’s how physicists describe how storms on the sun end up affecting us here on Earth. Most days I sit at a computer coding, attending telephone conference meetings with collaborators across the country and meeting with fellow space...

Read more: Scientists at work: space balloons and charged particles above the Arctic Circle

More Articles ...

  1. The Conversation US is growing
  2. The Federal Reserve is losing credibility by not raising rates now
  3. Dinnertime storytelling makes kids voracious readers
  4. It's time for doctors to hang up the white coats for good
  5. What's a politician's best tool? A razor
  6. Want more girls to be interested in computer science? Change some classroom stereotypes
  7. Native shrubs: a simple fix for drought-stricken crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
  8. Three women scholars grade Carly Fiorina's performance at the GOP debate
  9. Why the Fed is no longer center of the financial universe
  10. Thank an aging audience for Facebook's proposed dislike button
  11. Capitalism must evolve to solve the climate crisis
  12. When Greenpeace hires journalists, it's a double-edged sword
  13. The key to your health could be in your ZIP code
  14. Does bioenergy have a green energy future in the US?
  15. Why storytelling skills matter for African-American kids
  16. Myth of the 'Missing Link' in evolution does science no favors
  17. Malaysians worldwide demand prime minister's resignation
  18. The tale of Uber and a 19th century French economist
  19. Why Pope Francis' US visit is making the GOP squirm
  20. Can we tie unisex fashion trends to gender equality?
  21. Explainer: why stocks fall when the Fed considers raising interest rates
  22. The 2015 Sierra Nevada snowpack is a 500-year record low
  23. Why more grandparents are raising their grandchildren
  24. Can Iran's rulers still use enemies abroad to rally nation?
  25. If Goldwater can win the GOP nomination, why not Trump?
  26. How advertising research explains Donald Trump's profound appeal
  27. Stem cells could help mend a broken heart, but they've got to mature
  28. Local fishing rights + marine reserves: a better approach to small-scale fisheries recovery
  29. Should the Fed raise rates? Wrong question – here's the right one
  30. It's true. It matters when professors know their students' names
  31. If we burned all fossil fuels, would any of Antartica's ice survive?
  32. Our prosperity is in peril unless we shift from a wasteful world to a 'circular economy'
  33. Fourteen years after 9/11, Obama still struggles to close Guantanamo Bay
  34. Inside academia: black professors are expected to 'entertain' while presenting
  35. Why aren't under-65s diagnosed with cancer until the disease is advanced?
  36. In today's NFL, forget Super Bowl dreams – it's all about fantasy
  37. El Niño – what it will bring this year and how it could change with global warming
  38. Real crisis in psychology isn't that studies don't replicate, but that we usually don't even try
  39. Explainer: is it really OK to eat food that's fallen on the floor?
  40. Oliver Sacks, the brain and God
  41. More Syrian refugees: good for national security
  42. From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump in four short decades
  43. Why dress and appearance matter at black colleges
  44. Stephen Colbert's Late Show feasts on political fare
  45. The Common Core is today's New Math – which is actually a good thing
  46. When it comes to academic quality, Europeans show the way
  47. To see why attitudes on having children have changed, look at...New Yorker cartoons?
  48. The other immigrants: how the super-rich skirt quotas and closed borders
  49. Emails won’t decide Clinton’s fate in 2016
  50. New models to predict recidivism could provide better way to deter repeat crime