{"id":86587,"date":"2019-01-10T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/laser-triggers-electrical-activity-in-thunderstorm-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:46:01","slug":"laser-triggers-electrical-activity-in-thunderstorm-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/laser-triggers-electrical-activity-in-thunderstorm-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Laser triggers electrical activity in thunderstorm for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-triggers-electrical-activity-in-thunderstorm-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of <i>Optics Express<\/i>, the Optical Society\u2019s (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-01-laser-triggers-electrical-thunderstorm.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;01-laser-triggers-electrical-thunderstorm.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society\u2019s (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86587","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}