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A bantamweight UFC fighter scored a lightning-quick 47-second knockout after going ham with strikes
MMA bantamweight Heili Alateng beat his American opponent with ease Saturday at the Apex as he scor…
Alan Dawson
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Effects of lightning strikes on the human body
When that amount of energy enters your body, it short-circuits the electric signa…
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A lightning strike killed 11 people at a tourist tower in India as some were taking selfies
The incident occurred at the watchtower of the 12th-century Amber fort in the northwestern Indian s…
Natalie Musumeci
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How Air Force maintainers get a plane flying again after a lightning strike
It took a week of work with the help of cranes and a cherry picker to get this C-17 back to operati…
Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer, US Ai…
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Lightning strike alerts on mobile phones in UP
Lucknow, June 14 (IANS) With an aim to reduce deaths caused by lightning strikes, the Uttar Pradesh…
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'One Tree Hill' star Bevin Prince recalls her husband lit a cigar and said 'If we get struck by lightning, this is where I wanna be' moments before he was struck and killed by lightning
Bevin Prince remembered her husband, Will Friend, as "one of the funniest people I've ever met" and…
Rebecca Cohen
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Two killed, one injured in lightning strike in C'garh
The victims were picking litchis at a vegetable farm in Karasi village under Shankargarh police sta…
PTI
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A comet may have melted one of the world’s oldest civilisations to a crisp at more than 2,200 degrees Celsius
Abu Hureyra, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, might have been crushed by cosmic collisi…
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A George Floyd mural collapsed in Ohio - and everything from vandalism to a lightning strike has been blamed
The bright brick-wall mural in Toledo, Ohio, honoring George Floyd was reduced to a heap of rubble …
Natalie Musumeci
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The US's experimental 'lightning carriers' are 'much more capable' than China's current carriers, US admiral says
An amphibious assault ship loaded with more than a dozen F-35Bs "just is a very versatile instrumen…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The F-35 was 'designed precisely' to fight and win in the kind of war happening in Ukraine, former test pilot says
The F-35's "capacity to neutralize the enemy cannot be matched by any other airplane," former test …
Constantine Atlamazoglou
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Video shows lightning hitting the launch pad of NASA's new SLS mega rocket but getting diverted from hitting engines or fuel
NASA is carrying out the first "wet-dress rehearsal" of Artemis I, the first iteration of the new m…
Marianne Guenot
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The US military is throttling back on the F-35 as other militaries stock up on the stealth fighter
US Air Force officials "remain committed to the F-35," but they don't want to buy as many of them i…
Christopher Woody
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US Navy pulls sunken F-35 stealth fighter up 12,400 feet from the bottom of the South China Sea
It took a little over a month for the Navy to recover the jet, which crashed on the deck of an airc…
Julie Coleman
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Space images show 477-mile lightning 'megaflash' that crossed 3 states and broke a world record
Space technology helped meteorologists map the "monster" lightning flash, which stretched from Texa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch Hurricane Dorian throw lightning strikes off its swirling vortex, signalling a disaster
The lightning show is a loop of satellite images from the end of August put together by Dakota S…
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The UK has recovered the F-35 stealth fighter that crashed off an aircraft carrier into the sea
British newspaper reports say it took a couple of weeks to find the plane and then another few week…
Ryan Pickrell
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Apple is reportedly testing iPhones that would swap lightning ports for the more common USB-C
The USB-C port is more widespread, even in Apple computers and iPads, and now the company is testin…
Gabrielle Bienasz
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The US Air Force F-35A stealth fighter just took a big step toward being able to drop nuclear bombs
"It makes our potential adversaries think more about their game plan," an Air Force official said o…
Ryan Pickrell
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A US F-22 Raptor pilot describes the challenge of going up against F-35 red-air aggressors
"It is challenging, even flying the Raptor to have good [situational awareness] on where the F-35s …