Lightning flashes illuminate storm behavior

Anybody who has ever tried to photograph lightning knows that it takes patience and special camera…

Green with rage: Women climate change leaders face online attacks

Women leaders who support climate action are being attacked online with increasing regularity. These attacks should…

Researchers use light to control high-speed chemical reactions in a new way

Many natural and synthetic chemical systems react and change their properties in the presence of certain…

Testing quantum mechanics in a non-inertial reference frame using a rotating interferometer

A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Southampton has devised…

Image: Hubble glimpses faint galaxy

This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695,…

Significant progress made in inverse photoconductance

Valencia University (UV) researchers have modified the photoconductance of nanoparticles of tungsten oxide (WO3) in a…

Image: Baja California

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image takes us just south of the US border, to the region of…

Tropical mountain rivers are where the magic happens

Large tropical mountain river systems aren’t getting the respect they deserve—at least not when it comes…

16 things you probably didn't know about cephalopod sex

If you’ve ever seen the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Tentacles” exhibit, you know that cephalopods (squids, octopuses,…

Decoding messages in the body's microscopic metropolises

A study aimed at identifying and examining the small messenger proteins used by microbes living on…