The same team is now back with another surprising contraption: a miniature, plastic “lightning-in-a-box.” In a recent study ...
Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.
The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...
A better understanding of how lightning begins could improve storm forecasting and risk assessment. This research also improves knowledge of atmospheric radiation. Gamma rays and X-rays from storms ...