Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.
Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.
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US lab models lightning from clouds in plastic blocks to study storm physics
The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...
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