When lightning strikes the ground, it can leave behind a root-like rock called a fulgurite. Host Maddie Sofia talks with NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce about what lightning and its ...

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Lightning can leave destruction in its path in a matter of seconds, but it can also leave something beautiful behind known as fulgurite.

Each Monday, explore the many amazing minerals, fossils and historical objects on display at the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum with curator Garrett Barmore.

Hunting for quasicrystals Using a scanning electron microscope, Bindi, Steinhardt and their colleagues found a 12-sided, 12-angled crystal with 12-fold symmetry embedded in the fulgurite.

"Fulgurite" is the technical term for the hollow rods of glass that lightning can create when it strikes sand.

Fulgurite, a rock produced by lightning strikes, contains the phosphorus mineral schreibersite, making it key to the development of life on Earth.