DPRK News Service (Official News feed of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea ) claims in a July tweet that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is writing a book about surface to surface missiles: (more…)
Study by UCLA researchers and others could explain mysterious plasma waves in space
In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to study the Earth’s atmosphere, magnetosphere and the space between Earth and the moon. Using observations from those satellites, Christopher Russell, a UCLA graduate student at the time, detected mysterious plasma waves in the Van Allen radiation belts, the donut-shaped rings surrounding the Earth that contain high-energy particles trapped by the planet’s magnetic field. (more…)
