Scientists finally explain how lightning forms inside storm clouds

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...
BGR

Scientists May Have Found The Missing Link To How Lightning Forms

A spy plane retrofitted with research equipment has discovered some very intriguing things while observing thunderstorms in the tropics. According to a new paper published by the researchers behind ...

From bolts to blue jets, lightning comes in many strange forms

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...
AOL

Lightning Might Be Irradiating Our World Without Ever Showing Its Face. Here’s How.

Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a mystery—especially the strange mechanics behind terrestrial ...
TechSpot

Scientists might have accidentally discovered how lightning forms – from bending ice

In brief: The process that creates lightning has never been precisely understood, but scientists know that ice plays a crucial role. New research into developing cold electrical components may have ...
Iowa Public Radio

This week in science: squid fabric, a growing Everest, and the mystery of lightning

I'm here with the hosts of NPR's science podcast, Short Wave, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. And they're here for our regular science news roundup. Hi to both of you. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. EMILY ...
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Lightning Might Be Irradiating Our World Without Ever Showing Its Face. Here’s How.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a ...