Globally, lightning is responsible for over 4,000 fatalities ... field causes ambient electrons to "run away" and become a plasma: lightning. "As a physicist, I like to be able to understand ...

The inspiration was researchers using rockets trailing thin wires to attract lightning. How does the tiny wire carry that much juice? It doesn’t, really. The wire vaporizes into plasma ...

Plasma is the stuff that makes lightning flash, stars shine, and neon signs glow. It is a special state of matter, like a ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have made a breakthrough in understanding ionization, the process by which atoms lose ...

That sounds exotic compared to gasses, solids, and liquids, but it turns out that over 99% of the visible universe is plasma. Things like lightning, the sun, and neon signs are all forms of plasma.