Lasers propel paper aeroplanes
‘Ablation’ technique could be scaled up to make lightweight aircraft
Light flashes charge the atmosphere
‘Blue jets’ make an electrical connection between clouds and the upper atmosphere
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Physicists forecast ‘super-Niño’
El Niño and La Niña could be fluctuations in a longer-term climate phenomenon
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Supernova link to ancient extinction
Iron in the Earth’s crust gives clue to marine extinction two million years ago
Radiation budget is called to account
Earlier this year a group of some 70 scientists spent an intense week in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado reviewing the current understanding of the radiation budget of the atmosphere....
City air pollution becomes clear
The link between water absorption and light scattering in airborne particles is surprisingly complex
Moon illuminates climate study
Dark side of the Moon can reveal changes in our atmosphere
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Jets on Jupiter: first view of an auroral flare
The solar wind and the giant planet's magnetic field combine to produce a huge plume
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Night-time on Venus
Signals from the dark side of Venus shed light on our neighbour's atmosphere
Clouds gather on Titan
Titan’s atmosphere has much in common with our own: it consists mainly of nitrogen, contains organic material, and exerts a pressure one-and-a half times what we feel on Earth. But Titan receive...
