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Published online 10 April 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020408-4
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Lightning forks illuminated
Lightning tips split like a river branches.
Jagged forks of lightning resemble the dividing course of streams because their underlying mathematics is similar, say Netherlands researchers. Their work explains why lightning tongues take on the favourite branching pattern of nature.
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