Lightning, the beloved donkey at the Museum of Life and Science, just turned 22 over the weekend. Posted 2020-11-08T12:47:05+00:00 - Updated 2020-11-08T12:47:05+00:00 ...

I Love My Job: Making Lightning at the Museum of Science Jeannine Madrid has been wowing visitors at the Theater of Electricity for 20 years. By Spencer Buell · 6/8/2018, 11:37 a.m.

Inside towering clouds of volcanic ash, stunning lightning storms can create tiny crystal balls, a new study reports. Researchers recently discovered smooth glass spheres in ash from explosive ...

The journey from a roaring sky to a shimmering glass tube underground is nothing short of magical, blending science, art, and the sheer unpredictability of nature. The Raw Power of a Lightning Strike ...

The museum is a kaleidoscopic city that teaches children about glass using easy to understand analogies, such as ‘The Beach’, ‘The Circus’ and ‘The Factory’.

Lightning plus volcanic ash make glass Date: March 3, 2015 Source: Geological Society of America Summary: Researchers have proposed a mechanism for the generation of glass spherules in geologic ...

Lightning bolts that flash and clash high above erupting volcanoes can forge flying ash into glass, new research finds. The mechanism could explain the origins of odd microscopic glass beads found ...

But lightning within the ash cloud can heat the air to 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit (30,000 degrees Celsius) for a few millionths of a second, melting the glass particles.