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Published online 3 February 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000203-8
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Great balls of what?
Philip Ball reports on new claims that the strange phenomenon of ball lightning is simply a kind of glowing candy floss spun from earth.
Of all the weird and wonderful phenomena of the natural world, few have attracted so much curiosity, mystery and downright crankiness as ball lightning. It has been documented since antiquity, and has purportedly been seen by one person in a hundred.
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