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X-ray Could Help Predict Lightning Strikes A new breakthrough in the dynamics of lightning has recently revealed the source of X-ray light emitted moments before the lightning strikes and could help in the near future advance the methods used to predict the moment and location where these phenomena occur."From a practical point of view, if we are going to eve...	17 July 2008 07:03 GMT

Beijing Store Grand Opening. Weather Damages Alabama Store. ifoAppleStore, the website dealing with news and information about Apple Inc.'s retail stores worldwide, is reporting that Apple has officially announced the grand opening of its first China retail store on July 19th at 10 a.m. The same source also reports that this week has seen the Apple Store Birmingham (Ala....	10 July 2008 17:06 GMT

Researchers Trigger Lightning with Laser Beam During an experiment carried out in South Baldy Peak, New Mexico, European researchers using a high-power laser deliberately triggered electrical activity in two passing thunderstorms. Laser pulses created plasma filaments inside the clouds, through which electric current was discharged inside the clouds. However, no...	14 April 2008 06:42 GMT

Lightning: not Zeus' Fault, Blame It on Clouds Lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon that even today remains mostly mysterious to the researchers. On top of having enough difficulties explaining why lightning forms in the fist place, scientists have also been struggling for decades to understand why bolts of lightning forming in the top layers of the clouds trav...	24 March 2008 04:39 GMT

What Really Causes Lightning? Air friction would be something to begin with; on the other hand, multiple studies conducted over decades have shown that the electrical fields generated through this process are not able to create even a spark, not to talk about an electric disruptive discharge several hundred meters long. Even if we take into consi...	25 January 2008 06:23 GMT

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