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High-Speed Photo of Electrical Storm Shows How Lightning Rods Work
A high-speed photo of lightning rods at work during an electrical storm in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes and keep buildings safe from damage.
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Where the Hell Is All the Snow?
I moved apartments last month and, in a fit of unusual preparedness, I made sure to get my snow boots and gloves out of storage and keep them at the front of my closet when I unpacked. I was anticipating a January like I’ve had in the past few years of living in Brooklyn, dotted…
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Texas Car Wash Explodes Into Winter Wonderland
It might not have been a white Christmas in Australia, but the U.S. is having a bit of a cold one. A massive arctic air mass moved south across the country, with the Weather Prediction Centre predicting that every state in the continental U.S. would experience below-freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve. That unfortunately led to…
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Scientists Looked at Nine Cyclones Swirling at Jupiter’s North Pole
Some odd storms on Jupiter discovered back in 2017 by a NASA spacecraft are particularly intriguing to scientists. New research attempted to figure out how the nine cyclones spinning at Jupiter’s north pole remain so organised.