In day-to-day life, most people consider rain to be little more than a nuisance, dashing for cover or opening umbrellas as it starts to fall. But rain is a vital part of what makes the world work and, as the NOAA explains, Earth needs water to survive. Rain is part of the water cycle, a complex set of processes through which water evaporates into the atmosphere before condensing and falling back to the surface as precipitation. It's always raining somewhere in the world...
In day-to-day life, most people consider rain to be little more than a nuisance, dashing for cover or opening umbrellas as it starts to fall. But rain is a vital part of what makes the world work and, as the NOAA explains, Earth needs water to survive. Rain is part of the water cycle, a complex set of processes through which water evaporates into the atmosphere...
Nature is equal parts beautiful and terrifying, with some super disturbing moments thrown in for good measure. Wildfires are definitely all three: They are, after all, vast acres of fire spreading at terrifying speeds, consuming everything in their path. In recent years, that's started to include more and more homes, buildings, and towns...
Long regarded as one of the most brilliant scientific minds in the world, Stephen Hawking left a lasting legacy on science and on humanity. Therefore, his thoughts on a wide range of topics hold quite a bit of weight. His first research paper dates all the way back to 1965. The last publication that he worked on was released posthumously in 2018...
Every couple of years or so, the scientific community tends to excitedly blurt, "We found water!" on some other planet or moon. In January 2022, astronomical hearts were aflutter at the possibility of water existing in the atmosphere of gas giant TOI-674 b, an exoplanet (planet in another solar system) about 150 light-years from Earth...
Rain is like a cosmic lullaby tapping its beat on the rooftop. There are those who want it to go away and others who bask in the glow of its puddles, sharing umbrellas and admiring the deep gray patterns in the sky. Precipitation seems to affect our moods in one way or another. But is this true, or is it just the work of our collective imaginations...
