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1 day ago · Thunderstorms produce gamma rays when electrons get accelerated in strong electric fields that build up inside the clouds (SN: 3/15/19). These electrons produce more electrons, and so on. When ...
3 days ago · During a thunderstorm, lightning can occur within the cloud, between clouds, between the cloud and the air, or between the cloud and the ground.
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1 day ago · The trigger for lightning has been a mystery for centuries. Credit: George Rose/Getty. Physicists have discovered a new form of γ-ray radiation that emerges from tropical thunderstorms — and ...
22 hours ago · Thunderstorm and Desire under the Elms exhibit striking similarities in thematic elements and the portrayal of female characters, which suggests the two playwrights, Cao Yu (1910-1996) and Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953), shared aesthetic vision in their creative writings.
22 hours ago · On the evening of July 2, 1947, farmers in the area reported hearing an explosion during a massive thunderstorm a few dozen miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. On July 3, a rancher named Mack Brazel collected some of the debris he stumbled upon in his field, eventually bringing it a few days later to a bomb squadron in Roswell, New Mexico, where Major Jesse Marcel worked in the U.S. Army.
1 day ago · U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Research Physicist Daniel Shy, Ph.D., integrates the in-Situ Thunderstorm Observer for Radiation Mechanisms (iSTORM) instrument to provide paradigm-changing observations of ionizing radiation from tropical thunderstorms aboard a NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft in support of the Airborne Lightning Observatory for the Fly’s Eye Global ...
3 days ago · This electromagnetic enhancement, Chilingarian says, has been overlooked in thunderstorm research – but it could be a piece of the puzzle in our understanding of the physical Universe, from thunderstorms here on Earth, to the cosmic rays that travel vast distances across space.
