Weak lightning in developing thunderstorms can trigger deadly wildfire by Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...
Lightning has fascinated its observers since the beginning of human history. Those who painted the Lascaux cave walls in France approximately 20,000 years ago are believed to have represented it in ...
A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...