Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...
have recently published papers in which they have discussed from theoretical considerations the start and progress of a lightning flash, and in a recent number of NATURE (August 7, p. 190 ...
Despite hundreds more sightings since then, scientists have struggled to explain the exact nature of ball lightning, leading some to question whether it is real, an optical illusion, or even a ...
It is five times hotter than the sun and turns sand to glass in an instant It can shoot 80 kilometres up above storm clouds And it may even have provided the original spark that created life ...