As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even more interesting – a way to study what might be the initial spark of lightning , using lasers and a single microscopic particle. Stöllner, a physics researcher from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, headed a study with an international team of researchers into a known but little-understood ability for light-based 'tweezers' to charge particles in their grasp,

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