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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch a nuclear engineer react to Lightning Bottle from a Particle Accelerator by Electron Impressions. This video dives into ...

SEATTLE — Forget about gamma rays from the hearts of distant galaxies. Scientists now believe gamma rays, as well as beams of energetic particles of antimatter, are common components of lightning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Shandong, China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) makes lightning tests. Artificially induced lightning can be used for lightning physics research and also for lightning protection tests under ...

A team of scientists from the Florida Institute of Technology was able to capture an amazing lightning show using a high-speed camera. The slow-motion video showed lightning as it struck Earth during ...