Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of what makes lightning.

Working with researchers in Barcelona and China, Stony Brook physicists helped simulate experiments that show how lightning is created through electricity conducted through ice.

Experts hope that the study of the origin of lightning could better explain what causes thunderstorms and additional research could help meteorologists better forecast the storms.

The Stony Brook experiment was led by a Ph.D. graduate student, Anthony Mannino, 26, of Ronkonkoma, under physics professor Marivi Fernandez-Serra and the Core Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science.

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