Scientists appear to have found the final puzzle pieces to unravel the mystery behind how lightning strikes occur. Around the world, every day, roughly three and a half million bolts of lightning ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Today on Weather U, we're discussing lightning and severe storms, and how they form. Lightning is a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ...

An international team led by Prof. Gustau Catalan and Dr. Xin Wen at the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia in ...

Ice can generate electricity when bent, a process called flexoelectricity. The discovery connects to lightning formation and ...

Missourians often associate lightning with thunderstorms or the occasional snowstorm, but other parts of the world also experience lightning in some different scenarios. Residents along coastlines may ...

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The crack of lightning has always seemed straightforward — clouds build up electric charge, and eventually, it snaps. But the chain of events that lights the sky has remained an atmospheric puzzle for ...

In an electrifying feat of nature, a megaflash has shattered previous records for the longest single lightning strike.

Ruinous fires across the West often lead to smoke-filled days with flames tearing through large swaths of natural land.

Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has successfully developed and tested the world’s first drone-based system capable of triggering and guiding lightning. Between December 2024 ...

The French Aerospace Lab estimates on average that each aircraft in the U.S. commercial fleet is struck by lightning every ...