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Did you know that the world around us is filled with different types of light waves ? From the warm glow of the sun to audible radio waves and invisible gamma rays, electromagnetic waves (action ...

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As you may already know (perhaps through personal experience!), many people with lupus are sensitive to light. This is a condition known as photosensitivity. Different kinds of light have different ...

There are lots of different kinds of lightning. The most common is sheet lightningwhich flows between clouds and lights up the whole sky. There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud ...