Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

More information: Toma Oregel-Chaumont et al, Direct observations of X-rays produced by upward positive lightning, Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58520-x Provided by Ecole ...

There’s another possible explanation. Did you know there are actually two types of lightning strikes? Most people don’t. Since positive strikes originate higher in the atmosphere, they have to ...

And, it just so happened, the storm itself was a behemoth, stretching across 200,000 square kilometers and generating ultra-powerful positive lightning bolts. Researchers analyzed the footage ...

Each year, there are millions of lightning strikes in the United States. These strikes can be dangerous with about 20 people ...

"It's the same as [an] electron, but it has a positive charge instead of a negative one.” The presence of positrons in cosmic ...