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Cosmic rays may be the elusive spark for lightning here on EarthWe still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...
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Scientists Recreate Decades-Old Experiment to See How Life Sparked on Earth, Stunned to See ‘Micro-Lightning’A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from ...
Primordial electrical storms might have helped provide a key building block to initiate life on Earth, according to a study published March 16 in Nature Communications. But the origins of life on ...
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Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in spaceThere are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above your head at any given time. These high-energy particles, which can ...
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A newly unveiled photo captured by an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) provides a rare glimpse at an upward-shooting "gigantic jet" of lightning likely extending more than 50 ...
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