Slow-Mo Cameras Capture Lightning Like Never Before
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Slow-Mo Cameras Capture Lightning Like Never Before

Few natural phenomenon are as powerful and awe-inspiring as lightning. Molten flashes of plasma which sear the eyes and deafen the ears, lightning is as mysterious as it is beautiful. Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology are using modern photography to try and discover more about this still largely-unknown entity.

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Otherworldly Radio Signals May Be The Result of Massive Thunderstorms
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Otherworldly Radio Signals May Be The Result of Massive Thunderstorms

For as long as we’ve searched the stars for alien life, we’ve received strange radio signals of unknown origin. Researchers from the University of St Andrews have found the cause. The bad news: it’s probably not aliens. The good news: it’s still awesome. The cause of extraterrestrial radio signals may in fact be lightning storms on other planets - millions of times more powerful than those on Earth.

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