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Model of Suns magnetic field created

Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Chicago have reported that they have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the Sun. Scientists have known since the 18th century that the Sun regularly oscillates between periods of high and low solar activity in an 11-year cycle, but have been unable to fully explain how this cycle is ...
Geneva Butterfly House opens for 10th beautiful season

Jake Turoff, 3, of Geneva, enjoys the 10th anniversary of the Butterfly House at Peck Farm Park. It opened Friday with the release of 400 ...
Serial Robber Hits GameStop Locations

(CBS) - Police are hunting for a serial robber who seems to be focused on a very specific target. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports. A South Side GameStop has become a favorite stop for the armed robber. Cook County Crimestoppers Chairman George McDade says the suspect may have been involved in 10 armed robberies at chain ...
Some People You Should Know The Melodeers

(CBS) — There are 140 of them who get together for the joy of singing. CBS 2's Harry Porterfield says the Melodeers are all someone you should know. It all began when barbershop patrons started singing while waiting to get their hair cut. A century or so later, the Melodeers chorus is taking the music to a dazzling new height with 140 ladies singing in unaccompanied four-part ...
Ealy Found Guilty In Burger King Strangling Case

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (STMW) — A Lake County jury has convicted James Ealy of strangling his former boss during a 2006 robbery at the north suburban Burger King restaurant where he once worked, the Sun-Times is reporting. Jurors deliberated for a little more than three hours Friday before finding Ealy guilty on one count of first-degree murder in the death of 45-year-old Mary Hutchison. Ealy ...

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Tim McGraw Surprises Honors Military Families

(CBS) — A special guest joined military service members and their families for lunch at outback steakhouse in Orland Park on Friday. Singer Tim McGraw stopped by as part of Operation Homefront, a program that awards mortgage-free homes to wounded warriors and members of the armed forces. ';We’re just here to say how much we appreciate all that they’ve done, not only for ...
Chicago school closings largest ever

After months of heated argument Chicago's school board has decided to close 49-elementary school and one high school--The biggest mass public school closing ever in this country. Now thousands of families are looking at the prospect of sending small children out of their neighborhoods to unfamiliar schools, something the city maintains, can't be helped. NBC'S Kevin Tibbles ...
Plainfield math teacher part of a national Common Core team

Indian Trail Middle School math teacher Michell Schade is one of 28 teachers across the country drafting curriculum to help educators teach new standards that will soon roll out across most ...
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Jill Heinking, public health nurse for the village of Mount Prospect and Victoria Bran, coordinator of the village's Community Connections Center, are teaching nutrition classes as part of this summer's "Health in Motion" walking ...
Deerfield Plan Commission approves luxury apartment project

The Deerfield Plan Commission has recommended a plan to build luxury apartments at the site of the former Beth Or synagogue, just south of Deerfield Road and west of Interstate Highway 94. The 5-0 vote on May 23 sends the plan for the 4-story building with approximately 260 units and 390 parking spaces to the village board. The apartment building is expected to bring in about 400 people to the ...

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Model of Sun's magnetic field created

Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Chicago have reported that they have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the Sun.

Scientists have known since the 18th century that the Sun regularly oscillates between periods of high and low solar activity in an 11-year cycle, but have been unable to fully explain how this cycle is generated.

In the 'Information Age', it has become increasingly important to be able to understand the Sun's magnetic activity, as it is the changes in its magnetic field that are responsible for 'space weather' phenomena, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

When this weather heads in the direction of Earth it can damage satellites, endanger astronauts on the International Space Station and cause power grid outages on the ground.

The research explains how the cyclical nature of these large-scale magnetic fields emerges, providing a solution to the mathematical equations governing fluids and electromagnetism for a large astrophysical body.

The mechanism, known as a dynamo, builds on a solution to a reduced set of equations first proposed in the 1950s which could explain the regular oscillation but which appeared to break down when applied to objects with high electrical conductivity. ...