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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Pyotra and the Wolf – Elna Holst

Pyotra And The Wolf - Elna Holst

Elna Holst has a new FF Paranormal book out: Pyotra and the Wolf. And there’s a giveaway. For the space of a breath or two, that wolf had entranced her, mesmerised her, made her believe—the impossible. And that was all it took. Nothing about this wolf was as it should be. Pyotra Nikolayevna Kulakova lives in a small Russian settlement in the northern Siberian taiga, where the polar night lasts for a good month out of the year and the temperature rarely reaches above freezing point. Pyotra’s days, too, seem congealed and unchanging, laden with grief, until her baby brother’s … Read more

SCIENCE: Why Are the Northern and Southern Auroras Different?

Auroras paint the sky around the poles when the sun is particularly active, flinging highly charged particles at Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists once thought that the gorgeous events were mirror images, but to their surprise, displays at the north (the aurora borealis) and south (the aurora australis) don’t precisely match. Ever since scientists realized these two celestial displays don’t line up, they’ve been trying to sort out why. Now, a team of researchers thinks it has found the reason — asymmetry in Earth’s magnetic tail. But what’s stranger is that the asymmetry is caused by the precise inverse of what scientists … Read more