Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

“Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research finds. Here, a wave breaks on White Sand Beach on the Thai island of Koh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a lightning bolt inside a laser beam. Multicolored beams radiate from a bright center and there are several ...

Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, infrastructure, and the continued existence of squishy bags of mostly salty water ...

The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, ...

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This episode is about lightning. We will use a balloon and a CFL lightbulb to explore static electricity. Static electricity is the movement of electrons between two objects, just ...

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the ...