Science News drew over 21 million visitors to our website this year. Here’s a rundown of the most-read news stories and long reads of 2021.
Top news stories 1. Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
Instruments on the International Space Station detected the origins of an odd type of lightning called a blue jet. The bizarre bolt is sparked by a “blue bang” — a flash of bright blue light that may be brought on by the turbulent mixing of oppositely charged regions within a thundercloud (SN: 2/13/21, p. 14).
2. A newfound quasicrystal formed in the first atomic bomb test
The first atomic
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