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Spectacular photo taken from ISS shows 'gigantic jet' of upward-shooting lightning towering 50 miles over New Orleans
Gigantic jets are massive lightning bolts that shoot upward from thunderstorms when the charged layers of the clouds get ...
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Tiny Bolts of Lightning Produced by Water Droplets May Have Sparked Life on Earth
Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.
3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Lightning goes THAT way?
A NASA astronaut snapped a rare picture of a lightning bolt. Yes, they really do bend that way. And if you have 500 TV ...
Superman’s Lightning Powers Era Was One of DC’s Best
DC's Lightning Superman era of the 1990s may not be everyone's favorite, but it is one of the most inventive for the hero ...
LANL researchers point to cosmic showers as likely element in triggering lightning
Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...