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Lightning-prediction tool could help protect the planes of the future

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won ...
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Lightning’s Hidden Spectacle, Captured From the Edge of Space

These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...
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Two Lightning Bolts Collided Over a Japanese Tower and Triggered a Microburst of Nuclear-Level Radiation

The event began with the approach of two opposing electrical discharges: a downward-propagating leader from a thundercloud and an upward leader emerging from a television transmission tower in ...
Space.com

Rare colorful lightning caught on camera by ISS astronaut. 'OK, this is kind of out there'

"OK, this is kind of out there and caters to your inner Uber-Geek." NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the ...
Nature

Spectral Study of Rare Upward Developing, Circling, and Branching Cloud-To-Ground Lightning

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
Nature

Modeling the Inception and Stepped Propagation of Upward Positive Lightning Leaders

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
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Lightning [by] Martin A. Uman

INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTNING: Lightning and thunderclouds -- The stepped leader -- The return stroke -- The dart leader -- More on strokes and flashes -- Intracloud discharges -- Strokes bringing ...