A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their ...

The crack of lightning has always seemed straightforward — clouds build up electric charge, and eventually, it snaps. But the chain of events that lights the sky has remained an atmospheric puzzle for ...

Lightning may look like a sudden burst from the clouds, but its true origin lies in an invisible storm of cosmic rays, X-rays, and high-energy electrons. A breakthrough study led by Penn State ...

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

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A new study shows lightning begins with cosmic rays from space, uncovering how storms create the energy behind Earth’s most ...

A full understanding of how lightning forms in the clouds has eluded scientists, but new research promises to solve this ...

A new model reveals how cosmic electrons and X-rays trigger lightning, solving a decades-old mystery about what starts a lightning strike.

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Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within ...