Storm chasing is not for the faint-hearted. It requires a blend of courage, curiosity, and a dash of madness. These brave ...

New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

But a puzzle lies in how clouds' electric fields that ... The researchers imaged out more than 300 lightning bolts during a 90-minute storm that passed over the Los Alamos-based interferometer ...

Why will a lightning bolt sometimes strike a low tree when ... the Kahuna on lightning triggered by firing rockets into storm clouds. But Samaras is dismissive of manufactured lightning—only ...

After the regulations went into effect, lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight, per newly published ...

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...

Lightning forms due to a difference in charges. Negative charges accumulates at the bottom of the storm cloud. Of course, opposites attract. A positive charge accumulates on the ground under the storm ...

Rare red flashes, known as 'red sprites', illuminated the Himalayan sky in May 2022, astonishing both astrophotographers and ...

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Maricopa County starting at 4:18 p.m. March 13.

Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...

After the machine was fixed, another lightning bolt struck on July 24, knocking out the fax machine again. The lightning storm in the neighborhood prevented a technician from immediately going to ...