thunderstorms
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Thunderstorms Linked to Breathing Trouble for Older People
A new study out Monday might provide the strongest evidence yet that thunderstorms can worsen certain health conditions. Across a 14-year period in the U.S., researchers found that the days surrounding a thunderstorm were clearly associated with a spike in emergency room visits for respiratory problems among older Americans, especially for those with preexisting conditions…
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Thunderstorm Turns Into A Nuclear Reactor And Blasts Radiation Everywhere
Image: Ricardo Faria/Flickr Thunderclouds rolled into the Japanese beach town of Uchinada early one December morning in 2015. The scientists expected the storms; they’d staked out the location specifically for studying something normally only seen by satellites. Sometime after 5am, a flash of lightning struck a wind turbine. And along came a more perplexing weather…
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A Plane Took A Wrong Turn And Ended Up In A Cloud Of Antimatter
Where the hell did the antimatter come from? That’s what atmospheric scientist Joseph Dwyer has been trying to figure out for the past six years, after his research plane accidentally flew through a thunderstorm into a cloud of antimatter in 2009.
