An X1.9 flare and solar wind are heading for Earth

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An X1.9 flare and solar wind are heading for Earth  On December 1, the Sun unleashed an X1.9-class solar flare – one of the strongest of this cycle – and a wide coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted

Laurent Simons, Belgium’s little Einstein

Laurent Simons

    At just 15 years old, Belgian prodigy Laurent Simons has earned a PhD in quantum physics — a milestone most people don’t reach until their late twenties or thirties. His educational timeline reads like science