Andrew Price
The always-excellent Big Picture compiles a set of incredible images of the Sun, our local, life-supporting star. It's 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at the core. That's hot! Here's a good NASA primer on the Sun if these shots pique your curiosity.
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
Kevin Connolly was born without legs. Getting around on a skateboard, with duct-tape-reinforced gloves, he's not exactly inconspicuous. For...
One of the problems often cited in criticizing the $100 laptop is the fact that, in this day and age, a non-internet connected computer is a...
A while back, we revealed to you the sun jar, a jar that captures sunlight and the gives off a warm, homey glow when the sun goes away. Now, you...
In Switzerland, two pioneers are coming closer and closer to a flight around the world powered only by solar energy. This is the third part in an...
We've already heard that Europe and North Africa could get 100 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2050, and here's something to...
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures an image of an enormous prominence around the sun. Check out this accompanying video.
Craig Colorusso's "Sun Boxes" (video preview after the jump) is an installation of 20 speakers powered by solar panels to create a naturally...
Those headlines are misleading you. Scientists think the sun may go through a dormant period, but that won't stop the rise in global temperatures.
Photographer Joe Capra presents the wonder of Iceland in a stunning time-lapse video created over 17 sleepless days and nights.
The Department of Energy has spent the past year trying to find out how solar panels react to clouds passing over the sun.
Astrophotographer Alan Friedman had just 0.2 seconds to capture this amazing image of International Space Station crossing in front of the sun.
The graphic video enraging Afghanistan and America alike should upset you. But not for the reasons you think.
“It’s expensive to be poor, and nowhere is that truer than in energy."
For this Independence Day weekend, what about a dance performance at a transit station? Wasabi-flavored desserts? Here's what's happening in L.A.
America can make or break the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen-depending on what happens in Washington. I'm getting a lot of emails here in...
An infographic that lists something—from PhDs to teen pregnancies—that each state has or produces more of than its forty-nine rivals.
For World Water Day: Meet the Capri Sun pouch you simply drop in a mud puddle or contaminated river to get clean, fortified water.
It's a horrible idea to protest the funeral of the Arizona shooting victims, but do we want the government passing laws to stop it?
The bailout money for homeowners just isn't being spent — in part because of political fears.
OK, fine. There was a hiccup or two at the G-8 Summit. And, sure, they didn't reach a perfect state of accord regarding global climate change. But...
