Two links loosely about light and electricity that popped up together yesterday: lightning and bioluminescence.

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-possible

#lighting #bioluminescence #light #electricity #quantamagazine #coloradoedu #YvaineYe #CharlieWood

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. | Quanta Magazine

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.

Quanta Magazine