Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

While digging in his garden, he makes a discovery that will change his life. Everyday chemical now linked to liver disease ...

Physicists have created a visible, self-sustaining “time crystal” using swirling liquid crystals that move in endlessly repeating patterns when illuminated. Imagine a clock that runs forever without ...

Lightning lights up the sky in a dramatic flash, but scientists still don’t fully understand how it starts. Now, researchers ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

An accidental discovery involving laser beams and particles suspended in light may unravel the mysterious nature of lightning strikes.

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Researchers at KRISS observed water’s rapid freeze–melt cycles under ultrahigh pressure and discovered Ice XXI, the first new ...

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Here is an explainer on the technique that artificially modifies a cloud so that it produces more rainfall as Delhi saw its first cloud-seeding trial on Tuesday, in an attempt to address air pollution ...

Scientists have cracked a long-standing Martian mystery. Those seasonal gullies on sand dunes that everyone thought were made by water. Turns out, carbon dioxide (CO₂) ice, or dry ice, is the culprit.