Because the sparking happens so uniformly across the branches they observed, the team suspects the phenomenon scales up massively. Tens to hundreds of leaves on every treetop under a thunderstorm ...

Tree leaves are found to emit tiny electrical sparks during thunderstorms, reshaping how we understand forest and storm ...

In A Nutshell Penn State scientists captured the first direct evidence of trees producing faint electrical glows, called coronae, during live thunderstorms. The discharges hop erratically from leaf to ...

This artist concept shows electrical discharges within Martian dust storms. (Credit: NASA) Scientists have confirmed that, within the swirling dust storms common on Mars' surface, small electrical ...

Mars may look quiet from a distance, but up close it is anything but still. Beneath its thin sky, dust storms roar, dust devils twist across the surface, and tiny grains of sand constantly rub against ...

For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during ...

Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth. When dust particles rub against each other, as they do in Martian dust storms, they ...

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Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were whispering with electricity right under your feet. For the first time, ...