
The lightning bolt you see travelling downward is actually moving upward. The channel is five times hotter than the sun’s surface. And the whole event is possibly triggered by particles from a dead star in another galaxy. What really happens inside a lightning bolt is nothing like the simple story you were taught. Read more

Two billion years before the first animal drew breath, a microscopic organism was quietly dismantling the world. The Great Oxidation Event explained is one of Earth’s most dramatic untold stories — how cyanobacteria accidentally poisoned an entire planet, froze it solid, and in doing so, made all complex life possible. This is that story. Read more