Lightning strikes are a major trigger for wildfires, including the record-breaking blazes that devastated Australia, California and other regions this year. An international research team has now ...

Discover how does lightning begin and the mysteries behind its initiation and travel in this deep dive into lightning research. Every day on this planet, roughly 4 to 8 million bolts of electricity ...

Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

A group of scientists said they were able to guide lightning bolts using laser technology for the first time. In new work published in the journal Nature Photonics, international researchers said ...

Location of events: Geographic locations of each identified bouncing packet (red dots), with background magnetic field strength shown on the colour scale. White dashed lines are L-shell contours, ...

Join us on Wednesday, March 31 at noon Pacific for the Physics of Lightning Hack Chat with Greg Leyh! Of all the things that were around to terrify our ancestors, lightning must have been right up ...

In He Built a Lightning Gun, the creator demonstrates an incredible feat of engineering by building a device that generates lightning on demand. Dr. Ben Miles, a nuclear engineer, reacts to the ...

Ball lightning - a slow-moving ball of light that is occasionally seen at ground level during thunderstorms - has puzzled scientists for centuries. There have also been reports of ball lightning in ...

After nearly 100 years of speculating that thunderstorms could trigger a nuclear reaction in the atmosphere, scientists have finally recorded the phenomenon for the first time. Lightning produces ...