So some experts speculated that Venus might have lightning too-perhaps a lot of lightning. But is there lightning? Flybys of Venus have detected electromagnetic signals in the radio spectrum called "whistler waves" that, on Earth, are associated with lightning strikes. It has bone-crushing atmospheric pressure and clouds made of sulfuric acid. The longest any spacecraft has survived on the planet's surface is thought to be around two hours. Venus Lightning Debate Gets Lit Venus is an inhospitable place. Umair Irfan, staff writer at Vox, joins guest host Flora Lichtman to talk about the winners and their advances, and to share other stories from the week in science, including an FCC fine for a satellite company's space junk, concerns over drought in the Amazon rainforest, and a tale of fighting a coral-threatening algal bloom using hungry crabs. Ekimov learned that they had won the prize in chemistry for their work with tiny bits of semiconductor material known as quantum dots. On Tuesday, the Nobel in physics went to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier, who created techniques to illuminate the movement of electrons using attosecond-length pulses of light. It went to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, scientists who developed the modifications to mRNA that made the biomolecule a viable strategy for creating vaccines. On Monday, the prize in medicine or physiology was announced.
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