News tagged with air showers

Scientists Use High-energy Particles from Space to Probe Thunderstorms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida Institute of Technology researchers are trying to solve one of the great mysteries in nature: how thunderstorms make lightning. Because, in principle, lightning is a big spark it should behave like ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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