A team of Drexel University engineering students are traveling to Texas this week to launch a high-altitude balloon during the October 14 solar eclipse. Their goal is to study the rapid changes in ...

If summer travel plans include high altitude conditions, it is important to take proper precautionary measures to prevent sickness, said a travel medicine expert from Baylor College of Medicine.

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their ...

The crack of lightning has always seemed straightforward — clouds build up electric charge, and eventually, it snaps. But the chain of events that lights the sky has remained an atmospheric puzzle for ...

Technology Innovation Institute’s Directed Energy Research Centre becomes First-in-Region to Replicate Electromagnetic Pulses from High-altitude Nuclear Reaction ...

High-stakes chain reaction Three physiological changes result from this high-stakes chain reaction. None of them go away, although mountain-dwellers become desensitized to them over time.