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Does it rain more during the day than at night?

Although each region has a rainfall pattern that depends a lot on its geography, rain tends to be more frequent in the morning and afternoon than at night.

For clouds to form, a humid air mass must rise, expand, and cool; and that the vapor that is thus formed, condenses. Updrafts arise for four reasons: a low pressure atmospheric zone; an obstacle that forces the air to rise; the collision of a cold and a warm air mass and; finally, the rise by convection of the air in contact with the surface, which is hotter than that of the upper layers. The first three situations can occur at any time, but convective currents are typical of the day, when the sun has heated the ground for hours.

A ray of light contains more information than you think

A simple ray of light, a jet of photons, is capable of giving us information about the temperature, composition, speed and distance of the star that emitted it.

The legacy of Albert Einstein: the Theory of Relativity

On this day Albert Einstein was born in Germany, author of the theory of relativity, who determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers.

An asteroid that was going to hit Earth in 2023 turns out to be...

For a few days in January, asteroid 2022 AE1 became the most dangerous asteroid observed in more than a decade.

This is theory that says what was there before the Big Bang

One of the problems with physics is that its two great theories, general relativity and quantum theory, get along like a cat and a dog. Although we have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity for more than half a century, the truth is that the results are quite disappointing.

Is there only one time?

Time is a concept that we use daily throughout our lives. However, what is it? Time, we say, is what the clock ticks. But that is not saying much. If we reflect a little more we will see that no matter how hard we try to find an answer, none will completely satisfy us. Time is an elusive concept and it is surprising that something so familiar is so difficult to define.

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