results from a satellite put into orbit to detect nuclear weapons in space have caused a stir in the scientific community. The results reveal thousands of times of more lightning from thunderstorms than scientists had earlier believed. Three months after its launch, Los Alamos National laboratory's Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events (forte) satellite is detecting thousands of radio bursts from lightning strikes. Data presented recently could help the researchers to locate these mysterious bursts called trans-ionopsheric pulse pairs.

First reported by the laboratory's Alexis probe in 1993, these bursts are powerful radio impulses