If global warming doesn’t scare you enough, consider worrying about a new Ice Age instead. The Times of India’s Dipannita Das reports that an investigation by India’s National Center for Radio Astrophysics (part of the portentously named Institute for Fundamental Research) has detected “a steady weakening of the Sun’s magnetic field.” That in turn is weakening the solar wind – a stream of protons and electrons flowing off the sun at, literally, a million miles an hour. So what? Well, among other things, the report says that a continued ebb of the sun's field could lead to a ... Read More