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This inefficiency is what drives the blast of light, heat, and sound as lightning sears a branch of the atmosphere into instant plasma on its way to the ground. Lightning strikes simply because it's ...

Lightning is Incredibly Hot When people think of heat, they often think of things like boiling water or a hot summer's day. However, lightning dwarfs these common perceptions of warmth. A single bolt ...

We discovered that a combination of weather on Earth and weather in space produces the unique electron signatures we observed in our study. The solar activity disturbs Earth’s radiation belts and ...