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Prehistoric homes would have failed modern air quality tests

Prehistoric homes would have failed modern air quality tests

Domestic burning of wood and dung fuels in neolithic homes would have exceeded internationally-agreed standards for indoor air quality, exposing inhabitants to unsafe levels of particulates.

A map of the coronal magnetic field strength superimposed on a coronal image taken by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (Yang et al. 2020, Science).

Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time

An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, Newcastle, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona, for the first time.

A solar storm

Details of UK-led solar science mission revealed at National Astronomy Meeting

Named after a Celtic goddess of the Sun, SULIS is a UK-led solar science mission, designed to answer fundamental questions about the physics of solar storms.

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