The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Human activities continue to pump billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, raising global ...

Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run on ...

The Great Smoky Mountains are wonders of nature. Thanks to my kids, I get to experience them at times. My daughter used to have volleyball tournaments in Sevierville, Tennessee, and this weekend, the ...

Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS has the following research output in the current window (1 September 2024 - 31 August 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles ...

John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” This is especially true when we’re trying to fix the damage that we’re doing ...

Reflecting China's growing presence in international science communication, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) and Advances in Oceanic and Atmospheric Science Letters (AOSL), two English journals ...

Increasing CO2 levels are triggering changes in the ionosphere that will adversely affect signals, say scientists ...

The Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder is thrilled to welcome Ivy Tan as a new Assistant Professor of Physics this fall. Her interest in the field started with a love for ...

The authors measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint, to see if the laws that apply in the ...