Detecting radiation is a fundamental necessity for national security, but doing so effectively and at a distance is a tall ...

These high-energy particles in space make up what are known as the Van Allen radiation belts, and their discovery was one of the first of the space age. A new study from my research team has found ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that lightning on Earth can knock high-energy electrons out of the inner radiation belt, ...

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Determining the culprit One of the ways to disturb electrons in the inner radiation belt and kick them into Earth’s atmosphere actually begins in the atmosphere itself. Lightning, the large ...