Hydroperoxides are strong oxidants that have a significant influence on chemical processes in the atmosphere. Now, an international research team involving the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric ...

For more than 70 years, scientists have suspected treetops might emit these corona electrical discharges because of odd ...

In Dante's "Divine Comedy," Hell is described as an "inferno" with nine concentric circles, the entrance of which has a sign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brookhaven National Laboratory Atmospheric scientists and engineers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully created ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

Why has Venus remained so stubbornly difficult to read, even after decades of planetary science? A proposed Chinese instrument system points to one answer: the planet has not lacked scientific ...

Science is nuanced. This basic truth certainly holds for the field of atmospheric science, where the complexities of the airy environment are investigated. The climate science subdiscipline explores ...

Researchers say they have gathered evidence of Mars' atmosphere sputtering for the first time. Understanding how Mars' atmosphere has changed over time will undoubtedly help us discover more about the ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...