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From physicsworld.com: headline news:
As well as the spectacular lightning shows, thunderclouds can sometimes emit a series of unexplained gamma-ray bursts. Now, a group of researchers in Japan claims to have the best evidence yet that the clouds act as enormous particle accelerators — boosting the energy of cosmic electrons and creating gamma rays. The scientists reached this conclusion in the spirit of Benjamin Franklin by studying an electric storm from a mountaintop in Japan.
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Re: Thunderclouds Accelerate Cosmic Electrons
