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Photographs taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) depict a rare marvel: the eye of a tropical cyclone illuminated by two successive lightning strikes. Though most of us are familiar with the spiral of a cyclone or a hurricane as it spins across Earth’s daylit side, nighttime photographs …

An international team of researchers has proposed and demonstrated an efficient approach for triggering, trapping and guiding electrical discharges in air. Their technology is based on the use of a low-power laser beam that traps and transports light-absorbing particles in mid-air. Experimental configuration and principles of optical vortex beam for …

Juno Discovers ‘Shallow Lightning’ on Jupiter An unexpected form of electrical discharge, ‘shallow lightning’ originates from Jovian clouds containing an ammonia-water solution, according to a new analysis of data collected by the Stellar Reference Unit instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. This illustration uses data obtained by NASA’s Juno mission to …

As we hurtle noiselessly into a dystopian future, headphone makers have already started offering Lightning-only earbuds, something that should give early adopters some solace but might be a hard sell for folks with a shoebox full of tangled traditional earbuds. But the future is here and JBL Reflect Aware is …