We are not all equal when it comes to the cold, and your genes play a big role in this. Some people are simply lucky...
Sometimes, the wind changes abruptly because there are small areas of strong turbulence or local vortices in the atmosphere. These turbulences often occur when layers...
To produce lightning, an atmosphere must gather certain key ingredients such as thick clouds made up of various particles (water, ice, dust) that can collide...
Meteors are generally small rocky or metallic fragments, often originating from comets or asteroids. These particles drift through space, quiet until they cross the path...
The Earth is surrounded by a vast invisible shield called the geomagnetic field. Generated by the movements of liquid iron in its core, this field...
When a meteorite enters the Earth's atmosphere at full speed, it rubs violently against air molecules. This hyper-fast friction causes enormous heating, to the point...
The concept of daylight saving time primarily dates back to World War I, around 1916. The idea was simple: to move the hands of the...
When the white light from the sun passes through a raindrop, it changes direction: this is refraction. As the light enters the drop, it separates...
A cloud, despite its massive and dense appearance, actually has an extremely low density. It mainly consists of air containing countless tiny water droplets or...
Solar flares, what are they basically? They are violent explosions that occur on the surface of the Sun, abruptly releasing tons of energy in the...