The study published last month in the science journal, Nature Physics, explains how ice can produce electricity, similar to ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

The world of quantum physics is already mysterious, but what happens when that strange realm of subatomic particles is put ...

Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on ...

Human activities continue to pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, raising global ...

Highly accurate measurement of atmospheric temperature is key to building better models for the evolution of atmospheric systems. This is because small thermodynamic fluctuations in the atmosphere can ...

After a hurricane passes, scientists routinely analyze the assorted computer models used to predict its path and power and ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed ...

The blood moon in the Earth's shadow is created by Rayleigh scattering and refraction of sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere – ...

Last week, 250 scientists, engineers and experts gathered for an international space conference in Visby, Sweden. The four-day conference focused mainly on European balloon and rocket programs and ...