Natural particle accelerators are particularly interesting, because they are the only places where electron avalanches in a gas can be observed.
Here we are, toying with avalanches, backcountry skiing, surfing in rip currents, and then my father is killed because a guy takes off and flies right into a storm. I don't know what to make of it.
He found that these neural avalanches are scale invariant and that their size obeys a power law.
This includes to maintain clean water including e.g. healthy fish populations, as well as to reduce risks or impacts of floods, avalanches, erosion and droughts.
Rock avalanches cause destruction, but also provide benefits to people living in Asia's mountains.
Various environmental factors may play a role. Too much snow, for example, can smother trees, and avalanches and snow creep can damage or destroy them.
Like real avalanches, exactly how these cascades occur and the resulting state of the brain are unpredictable.
Viesturs had been thwarted in his attempts to climb Annapurna for years. His first expedition in 2000 was aborted due to bad weather and another in 2002 because of avalanches.
Networks of brain cells alternate between periods of calm and periods of instability - "avalanches" of electrical activity that cascade through the neurons.
The Back to the Future ride is a simulated experience that has you screaming through time trying to evade avalanches and gaping dinosaurs, while Backdraft, reveals how some of those behind the scenes fire stunts in the film were put together.
During the spring, carbon dioxide changes from a solid to a gas with enough force to trigger small avalanches.
If the brain was in a more stable state, these avalanches would die out before the message had been transmitted.
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