Staff at the Sanford Underground Research Facility describe their defensive plan that keeps the science below safe from events above.

OctopusEffects, #Blender Make clouds with lightning around in a cartoon style. The project is done on Blender 3.2. Use modifiers to create clouds. The materials of clouds and lightning are done in the ...

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest quirks—was a mystery until now.

The changing sky dazzles with a natural light show of lightning bolts and billowing clouds dance in the sky for hours. C ...

Half a million bolts of lightning hit the ground in Colorado each year. And when a thunderstorm is moving through southern Colorado, you'll see the First Alert 5 team showing you those lightning ...

Scientists have uncovered how invisible bursts of gamma rays inside thunderstorms may spark lightning, offering new insights ...

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been ...

As the summer months approach, lightning activity will soon ramp up. More than 70% of lightning-related deaths take place in June, July and August. Those months are also when people spend the most ...

Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a mystery—especially the strange mechanics behind terrestrial ...