Runaway breakdown can create large amounts of high-energy electrons, as well as x-rays and gamma rays. Interestingly, we know that runaway breakdown works for the low electric fields already seen ...

How lightning is initiated inside storms has been a long-standing and fundamental question. Here, the authors report observations of a previously unrecognized type of discharge, called fast ...

MELBOURNE, FLA.–Lightning, a high-voltage discharge that strikes quickly and sometimes fatally, is very difficult to study. A new and surprising finding by Florida Institute of Technology&#82… ...