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Episode Synopsis
Lightning has been striking the Earth for billions of years, but it’s only in the past few decades that scientists have started to uncover its flashiest secrets. Is lightning the same everywhere in the world? Does harvesting its energy to power our society—or a time machine—make any sense? From enormous bolts streaking toward space to powerfully mysterious gamma ray bursts, we explore this common but little understood natural phenomenon with one of the world’s leading researchers on the topic Professor Steve Cummer.
Transcript: pratt.duke.edu/news/lightning-talks
Transcript: pratt.duke.edu/news/lightning-talks
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