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Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity

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Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosity

Lightning can carry between 100 million to one billion volts of electricity. (Josep Castells/Unsplash), CC BY Peter Watson,…

September 14, 2025