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New discovery reinvents how lightning is formed

In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a ...
A new study has found an interesting and, perhaps, important property of ice. It appears to generate electricity when it is bent. Water ice is abundant on Earth, being one of the most widespread ...
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Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...