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Two Lightning Bolts Collided Over a Japanese Tower and Triggered a Microburst of Nuclear-Level Radiation
When Lightning Strikes, So Do Gamma Rays. On January 30, 2023, at 01:13 AM local time, lightning struck Tower 1. A downward ...
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Will we still see fireflies this summer?
Anecdotally, many of those people also report seeing fewer fireflies—or lightning bugs, as they’re called in some places—every summer. Experts say there’s scientific merit to that ...