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Apps of the Week: Disk Usage, ZDBox

Apps of the Week: Disk Usage, ZDBox

...what the Sun and Earth are up to. Get alerts for incoming solar storms, flares and auroras, or inspect sunspots in various different frequencies of... Read more

19 August, 2011 by Staff

GPS and sat-nav: The newest business-critical risk?

...predicts. Unintentional disruptions owing to space weather are generally rare - with most solar storms unlikely to take satellites offline thanks to effective spacecraft design - but... Read more

8 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Crowd-sourced analysis used for solar storm predictions

...in orbit, and one trailing behind — to study the structure of solar storms. "The main point is the fact that so many public observers... Read more

13 December, 2010
NASA Space Weather 1.0.0

NASA Space Weather 1.0.0

...well as NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory ( SDO ). The potential effects of such solar storms can also be viewed by accessing one of the many space... Read more

1 March, 2012
Space Storms 1.3

Space Storms 1.3

...can get in simple and obvious format:- Current level for geomagnetic and solar storms and radio blackout level expressed in NOAA' scale. -Warnings about influence... Read more

24 January, 2012
NASA Space Weather 1.0

NASA Space Weather 1.0

...well as NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory ( SDO ). The potential effects of such solar storms can also be viewed by accessing one of the many space... Read more

19 March, 2011
Astro Dodge 3.0

Astro Dodge 3.0

...asteroids is harder than you might imagine: You will encounter not only solar storms, but black holes on your mission to save our dear planet... Read more

4 February, 2011

Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms

Solar storms that can threaten satellites, power lines and communications are to be... Read more

5 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Space weather: How solar eruptions could be bad news for gadgets

...don't have to look far back in history to see how solar storms can disrupt modern infrastructure: in 1989, a solar eruption triggered a... Read more

10 May, 2010 by Nick Heath
2012 Universal Doom or New Age 1.0

2012 Universal Doom or New Age 1.0

...due to start in 2012, Earth will experience some of the worst solar storms and disasters seen in decades......Even if the apocalypse doesn't... Read more

17 March, 2010

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Iain Sutherland

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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