Current Science News

      Items in the news that I have found interesting and/or that relate to what we are currently studying in class.

Glowing Fungus
A new luminescent fungus was collected in Sao Paulo, Brazil and was found on sticks in an Atlantic forest habitat.
Using the Swedish Solar Telescope, a ground-based observatory, Goran Scharmer and colleagues probe the penumbra--that's the stringy structure around the perimeter of the dark part of the sunspot. The images give scientists new insight into how that structure forms.