Number 225 (Story #3), May 8, 1995 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein SOLAR NEUTRINOS AND SOLAR WIND : is there a link between these two particle streams issuing from our local star? The neutrinos are a byproduct of nuclear fusion reactions at the core of the sun while the solar wind is an outward gust of particles originating in the solar corona. Ralph McNutt of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, comparing neutrino data from the Homestake (SD) detector with solar wind data recorded by the IMP-8 satellite, finds a correlation. Over a 16-year period the neutrino flux and the flux of solar wind particles seem to go up and down together. There is no theoretical explanation of why this should be so. (Eos, 18 April 1995.)