Red Sprites over the Channel
These red sprites, dancing, lightning-like events were captured from a mountain top perch in northern France. Image credit Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees, TWAN)
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A selfie on a Supersonic Flight
Photographer Carla Thomas on a Supersonic Flight, to help engineers further the study of shockwaves.
Rare Nuclear Test Films Declassified
Weapon physicist declassifies rescued U.S. nuclear test films.
River in the Sky Keeps Flowing over the West US
Yet another series of rare atmospheric rivers has drenched California, in a stunning turnaround from five years of drought.
This is how Garbage Patches form in the world’s Oceans
Scientists develop model to simulate track of floating debris, helping to explain how garbage patches form in the world’s oceans.
Panoramic Skyscape with Airglow Australis
An exceptional panoramic skyscape filled with stars, clusters, and nebulae along the southern Milky Way including the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. Credit Yuri Beletsky
Going Supersonic without a Boom
The sonic boom, the sound produced when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, is the main problem for the manufactures.
Using Graphene to reduce Carbon Dioxide to fuel
Scientists use doped graphene quantum dots to reduce carbon dioxide to fuel.
Relocation of Halley Research Station in Antarctica
British Antarctic Survey is moving its Halley VI Research Station 23 km across the Brunt Ice Shelf, to be safe from an encroaching fissure in the ice.
Glow-in-the-Dark Clouds in Antarctica
Spectacular glow-in-the-dark Noctilucent clouds, 50 to 85 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, in frozen Antarctica.