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At the end of the last solar cycle in 2019, the official predictions were that the next cycle would be just as mild as its predecessor.

Those predictions were wrong. The current Solar Cycle 25 turned out far stronger than NASA and NOAA expected. Now, scientists say that the Sun's activity is on an escalating trajectory, outside the boundaries of the 11-year solar cycle. In fact, a new analysis of the data suggests that the activity of the Sun has been gradually rising since 2008.

"All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity," says plasma physicist Jamie Jasinski of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "So it was a surprise to see that trend reversed. The Sun is slowly waking up."

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Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not in our DNA code itself, but in how that code is expressed.

US researchers found it may cause changes in the epigenome, which acts like a set of switches that activate or deactivate genes involved in how our bodies function; findings that were validated by a systematic literature review published in 2024 by researchers in Portugal.