Word: sunspots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wang's research began in 1987 when, he says, sunspot activity was on the rise. "I was reading a report published by the Beijing Observatory while waiting for a haircut and noticed a very interesting pattern of sunspot areas in it," Wang said...
There could easily have been major territorial conflict, but scientific cooperation intervened. It took the form of the International Geophysical Year, actually 18 months long, which was scheduled to take advantage of the peak of sunspot activity predicted for 1957 and 1958. Sixty-seven countries joined in this exhaustive study of the interactions between the sun and earth. Much of the research went on in Antarctica, where Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the U.S. and the Soviet Union established bases...