19 August 2020
Growing 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field poses problems for satellites
Earth’s magnetic field, produced by swirling convective currents of molten iron 300 kilometres beneath our feet, is weakening at a certain spot say scientists at NASA, a small, ...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
... has been put down to high temperatures and crushing pressures where it is violently dredged up by huge, planet-sized convective storms, says Sousa-Silva and colleagues in research published last year. Venus might be hot but phosphorus...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... bright centers of "cells," cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection. (See video available with this news release.) "Since NSF began work on this ground-based telescope...
