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Cosmic-Ray Showers Play Pivotal Role in Triggering Lightning Flashes


With a newly-developed 3D mapping and polarization system, physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory observed that some lightning flashes were not only started with the positive fast discharge, but it was followed immediately by an even faster and more extensive negative discharge.

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