We finally unlocked one of the most puzzling secrets about lightning

Researchers have long studied how lightning works in the hopes of better understanding why it acts the way it does and why it hits some things but not others. A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters is accompanied by a high-speed camera video that reveals something incredibly interesting about lightning strikes. When a lightning strike occurs, the eventual target of the strike has not yet been determined, according to the new findings. Lightning strikes are either an incredible sig...