{"id":221894,"date":"2025-09-15T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/stony-brook-simulations-help-explain-lightnings-mysterious-origins"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:02:26","slug":"stony-brook-simulations-help-explain-lightnings-mysterious-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/stony-brook-simulations-help-explain-lightnings-mysterious-origins","title":{"rendered":"Stony Brook Simulations Help Explain Lightning\u2019s Mysterious Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stony-brook-simulations-help-explain-lightnings-mysterious-origins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STONY BROOK, NY \u2014 September 5, 2025\u2013 A recent study in Nature Physics reveals how ordinary ice can generate electricity, providing crucial insight into the origins of lightning. It was discovered that ice exhibits strong flexoelectricity\u2014an electromechanical effect that occurs when the material is bent. At Stony Brook University, PhD student Anthony Mannino, working under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STONY BROOK, NY \u2014 September 5, 2025\u2013 A recent study in Nature Physics reveals how ordinary ice can generate electricity, providing crucial insight into the origins of lightning. It was discovered that ice exhibits strong flexoelectricity\u2014an electromechanical effect that occurs when the material is bent. At Stony Brook University, PhD student Anthony Mannino, working under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}