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Solar eclipses don’t just look cool – they can send gravity waves rippling through Earth’s atmosphere like dropping a stone in a pond. An international team of students has measured these gravity waves for the first time.Continue ReadingCategory: Scien… Continue reading Solar eclipses send “gravity waves” through Earth’s atmosphere
NASA scientists have discovered a third global energy field around Earth. Known as the ambipolar electric field, this force drives charged particles into space above the poles.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Earth, Electric, NASA, Atmosphere, Io… Continue reading NASA discovers a new global energy field around Earth
As one of the four basic things humans need to live, clean drinking water is obviously of the utmost importance. While rainfall and rivers and lakes are the traditional go-to sources, climate change is making once reliable water sources much more undep… Continue reading Self-contained solar-powered boxes pull drinking water from the air
Giant shock waves emanating from the Sun can give us some breathtaking auroras here on Earth. They can also cause energy surges that can damage our infrastructure, says a new study that looks at how their angles of impact shape their consequences.Conti… Continue reading Interplanetary shock wave angles are key to infrastructure threat
It’s an unfortunate irony that while many regions struggle to find enough water, there’s trillions of liters of the stuff floating around in the air everywhere. A new water harvester design from MIT can pull enough fresh water out of the air to meet th… Continue reading Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
If you’re planning to get out and see the aurora next time the Sun fires a blast our way, you might want to keep an eye out for a brand new type of sky glow that’s just been discovered. This short-lived phenomenon only appears after midnight and seems … Continue reading Satellites spot strange sky glow that only comes out after midnight
Next month, NASA will place a new piece of equipment on the International Space Station (ISS). It will examine a phenomenon known as Earth’s airglow for signs of weather-produced waves that can reach the mesopause and disrupt satellite communications.C… Continue reading Earth’s airglow to give NASA a window into space weather waves
The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved one of the first major science goals announced for it way back in 2017. The infrared instrument has now probed the atmosphere around one of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa… Continue reading James Webb analyzes atmosphere of first TRAPPIST planet
If you’ve ever felt like you need more hours in the day, well how does 60 sound? A new study suggests we’d have 60-hour days by now if a stalemate between the Sun and Moon hadn’t interfered with Earth’s rotation for over a billion years.Continue Readin… Continue reading Billion-year conspiracy between Sun and Moon prevented 60-hour days
Every now and again we stumble across something a bit unexpected, and today that’s the fact that there have been quite a few efforts at launching paper planes from as …read more Continue reading Launching Paper Planes From Way, Waaaaaay Up