Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...

Copper makes the best lightning conductor—there is no fear of having it too thick: Faraday says, "the solid section is the grand object." It has hitherto been held by many to be a scientific ...

THIS communication records the observation of ball lightning in unusual circumstances. I was seated near the front of the passenger cabin of an all-metal airliner (Eastern Airlines Flight EA 539 ...

WE constantly find allusions in ancient classical authors, to lightning and thunder occurring in a clear sky. The former is often explained as referring to the phenomenon commonly known as ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

The exact mechanism that starts a lightning strike is still not well understood. Yet it happens 45 times per second somewhere on the planet. While we may not gain a deeper scientific appreciation ...

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Researchers from USTC have uncovered how convection intensity drives corona discharges at thunderstorm cloud tops. A research team from the (USTC), led by Professors Jiuhou Lei and Baoyou Zhu, along ...