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IMPACT OF WEAK WAVES. “Weak radio waves in the medium-wave band are sufficient to disrupt geomagnetic orientation in migratory birds, according to a particularly well-controlled study. But the underlying biophysics remains a puzzle.” https://lnkd.in/gvFuEbC View in LinkedIn

SUNSPOT CYCLES. “Periodic episodes of increased sunspot activity (solar electromagnetic storms) occur with 10–11 and 5–6 year periodicities and may be associated with measurable biological events.” http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2010.0574 View in LinkedIn

2012 GEOMAGNETIC STORM. "Drastic variations of Earth's outer radiation belt electrons ultimately result from various competing source, loss, and transport processes, to which wave-particle interactions are critically important. Overall, the outer belt was depleted by this storm. From the unprecedented level of observations available, we show direct evidence of the competitive nature of different wave-particle interactions controlling relativistic electron fluxes in the outer radiation belt." https://lnkd.in/gHkHH7D View in LinkedIn

CASE STUDY of a geomagnetic storm. "Modern navigation systems, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) use radio-wave signals that reflect from or propagate through the ionosphere as a means of determining range or distance. Such systems are vulnerable to effects caused by geomagnetic storms, and their performance can be severely degraded." https://lnkd.in/g3Zb2d5 View in LinkedIn

47 INTENSE GEOMAGNETIC STORMS IN 8 YEARS. "We study the behaviour of ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) during the geomagnetic storms. For this investigation we have selected 47 intense geomagnetic storms (Dst ≤ -100nT) that were observed during the solar cycle 23 i.e. during 1998- 2006." https://lnkd.in/ggaeHgk View in LinkedIn

NEW AWAKENINGS. “The past 10 years have seen a resurgence in searches for extraterrestrial intelligence. Some of the drivers for this include: The Big Data revolution; The privately-financed Breakthrough Listen Initiative.” But no systematic search for extraterrestrial biology. https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

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POLITICALLY SIDELINED. “Because of this lack of support, searches for technosignatures, precisely the part of the search of greatest public interest, suffers from a very small pool of trained practitioners. A major source of this issue is institutional inertia at NASA, which avoids the topic as a result of decades-past political grandstanding, conflation of the effort with non-scientific topics such as UFOs, and confusion regarding the scope of the term “SETI”.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn