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This Tiny 'Spark' Could Help Solve The Mystery of Lightning's Origins


As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even more interesting – a way to study what might be the initial spark of lightning, using lasers and a single microscopic particle.

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