When you peel a banana, you expose its flesh to the air, and that's where we get to the heart of the matter: the encounter...
When cold air hits the nose directly, it reacts by increasing the production of mucus. The goal is simple: to protect the internal tissues from...
When your fingers are exposed to the cold, your body triggers an automatic reaction: it quickly limits the blood flow to the extremities (fingers, toes, nose, ears)....
In a heavy storm, the warm air at the ground is sucked upwards at sometimes impressive speeds. This vertical current, called updraft, can easily exceed...
A lightning bolt is mainly a huge electric discharge that occurs between two differently charged areas within a cloud, or between a cloud and the...
When the snowflakes descend toward us, their light structure of ice crystals traps a lot of air. As a result, they fall gently, without friction...
Imagine a slightly tilted spinning top: that's exactly what our planet does all year round. The Earth indeed rotates around an axis tilted at about...
When sunlight meets a drop of water, it penetrates inside and refracts, meaning it slightly changes direction upon entering. Inside the drop, this light continues...
In deserts, prevailing winds play a crucial role in triggering sandstorms. Basically, it's simple: powerful and consistent currents arise due to differences in atmospheric pressure, like warm...
The Perseids come from the Swift-Tuttle comet, a comet that visits us regularly about every 133 years. Like a car leaving a cloud of dust...