Despite modern technology, some phenomena remain almost impossible to prove—like ball lightning. This video dives into the world of transient luminous events and the science trying to understand them.

In the wake of one of the flashes came the globular lightning, apparently floating slowly downwards. Two or three brilliant globular structures of the kind known as ball lightning appeared to ...

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This rare form of lightning may represent a stable configuration of a plasma of charged particles. If it does, it may help to solve the problem of confining a plasma within a thermonuclear reactor ...

Ball lightning is a rare occurrence that few people have seen with their own eyes. Thought for many years to be a myth, scientists now recognise it as a genuine phenomenon, but remain baffled about ...