Amy Yee is a business and economy reporter for the Sun-Times. She is author of “Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents,” with a foreword by the ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — Radiation testing suggests that solar cells made from carbon-based, or organic, materials could outperform conventional silicon and gallium arsenide for generating electricity in ...

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years ...

The Sun has just dropped its latest album. With all the boiling and bubbling gases, our closest star is a seriously noisy place. But you’ll never be able to ‘hear’ it because space is a ...

These ingredients, pungent and colourful, included purple cabbage, pickled leek and papaya, carrots, white and red pickled ginger, and crispy crackers: all classic components of yee sang ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

Being together with friends [and] enjoying life, music.” Common Country joins longtime yee-haw New York institutions such as Flaming Saddles and Coyote Ugly, along with new spots such as Daisy ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...

Singapore singer Stefanie Sun has admitted to feeling some pressure while preparing for her upcoming world tour, Aut Nihilo Sun Yanzi In Concert. “I am welcoming 2025 with wide open arms,” the ...

On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission ...

NASA's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the sun's surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...