Solar flares and other types of space weather can wreak havoc with spaceflight and with telecommunications and other types of satellites orbiting the Earth. But, to date, scientists’ ability to ...

Students from across the country spent the week of June 10 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., working along side engineers and technicians in the ...

This study is led by Dr. Ji Nie (assistant professor at Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Peking University). The research group collaborates with other researchers in using a ...

On the rise. Signs of convection are seen in the motion of hot gas under the influence of a gravity-like acoustic force in a spherical glass container. The images were recorded 15, 40, and 140 ...

DEMONSTRATE THE DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE DENSITY, THROUGH A FUN EXPERIMENT. CAITLIN: TODAY WE ARE TESTING CONVECTION USING COLD WATER OR AN ICE CUBE DIED BLUE. WARM OR HOT WATER DYED RED AND ROOM ...

WEST MICHIGAN — Looking for a fun activity to do at home with your kids? This science experiment is fun for all times of the year, but especially in the fall! This experiment displays convection and ...

Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon takes a look at different kinds of magnets in Jan. 25's Science Sunday. Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon checks out the properties of thermochromic paper in Jan. 18's ...

Space weather can interfere with spaceflight and the operation of satellites, but the phenomenon is very difficult to study on Earth because of the difference in gravity. Researchers effectively ...