If you ever looked up during a thunderclap and a red jellyfish looked high in the air, you were not hallucinating. These tentacle-like spurts of red lightning are called sprites. They are ultra-fast bursts of electricity that creep through the upper regions of the atmosphere – between 37 and 50 …
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Jessica Tennyson, 34, stays in her apartment on the southeast side of town for as long as she can at night. Eventually, however, the heat is too much for them to bear, and they have to go out into the pitch-black street. “I’m always afraid I’m …
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One of the most prominent astronomical observers in the world has a hole. On Monday, a 3-inch-thick (76-mm-thick) cable broke at the Arecibo Observatory, cutting a 30-foot (30-meter) hole in the reflector dish of the 20-acre radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The observatory was just opened after a temporary closure …
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A rare storm picked up winds of 100 mph and with force similar to a domestic hurricane Monday over the Midwest, blowing over trees, blowing cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it passed through Chicago and in Indiana and Michigan moved. The …
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A rare storm picked up winds of 100 mph and with force similar to a domestic hurricane Monday over the Midwest, blowing over trees, blowing cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it passed through Chicago and in Indiana and Michigan moved. The …
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