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Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, captured for the first time by Perseverance’s microphone. These static ...

The Sahara is the largest source of aeolian dust in the world, with annual production rates of approximately 180-200 million tons/year, which is almost half of all aeolian desert inputs to the ocean.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Department of Transportation and Kansas Highway Patrol are launching a new safety campaign, sharing safety guidance for western Kansas drivers traveling through areas ...

Global Empowerment Mission volunteers distribute boxes of aid to people in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated the island. Courtesy of Global Empowerment Mission Six weeks after Hurricane ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Traveling along a Kansas highway during a dust storm can be hazardous– and even deadly. One such storm this past March 14, when eight people lost their lives in a 71-vehicle ...

Thomas White receives funding from UKRI (ESRC) (ES/W005433/1). Andreas Baas has held a 2025 President's International Fellowship (PIFI) with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Han Cheng does not work ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Kansas Department of Transportation is launching a safety campaign for drivers ahead of a forecasted high wind event on Thursday. KDOT says dust storms often occur in the ...

Mars is a dusty planet dominated by vast, dry deserts, with no easily accessible sources of liquid water. Much like on Earth, dust is lifted from Mars's surface by wind and rotating air columns, ...

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA ...

Sometimes you get a small electric shock from touching your car door handle on a dry summer's day. The source of these shocks is a spark discharge, occurring between your body and the body of the car.

Like Frank Sinatra once crooned, "It was a very good year." The book on the 2025 hurricane season closed Sunday with no hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015, something ...