As a nonpartisan organization of writers committed to the defence of freedom of expression, PEN Canada is deeply concerned about Israel’s recent raid and closure of Al Jazeera’s offices in … ...

In an announcement from China’s Institute of Geology and Geophysics, the country’s low latitude long range ionospheric radar (LARID) detected plasma bubbles above the Midway Islands and Egypt ...

With the aid of the world’s most powerful radar of its kind, Chinese scientists have detected plasma bubbles appearing over both the Egyptian pyramids and the Midway Islands, almost simultaneously.

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...

Chinese scientists detected plasma bubbles over the Egyptian pyramids and Midway Islands using the LARID radar in Hainan. Equatorial plasma bubbles are unusual weather events in low-latitude areas ...

Plasma bubbles were detected over Egypt recently. Anadolu via Getty Images Called equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs), IFL Science describes them as pockets of superheated gas at low altitudes in ...

The finding of a massive bubble of plasma over Egypt is not itself major news. Tens of these EPBs form every year over that ...

The higher atmosphere is full of peculiar phenomena and an important one for communication and navigation is equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). These are hot pockets of superheated gas that form at ...

China is now the first country to detect the bubbles on a radar. The LARID is a radar system made to keep a check on the irregularities created by plasma bubbles. Radar can be used to reflect against ...