It is thought that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals. Yet the exact ...

Lightning lights up the sky in a dramatic flash, but scientists still don’t fully understand how it starts. Now, researchers ...

In fact, 'how lightning is born' has not been clarified even by modern science. In order to solve this mystery, a new radio telescope, LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray), which researchers use to observe ...

In a lab filled with bouncing green lasers and an anti-vibration table that hums a soft, squishy sound, the researchers used ...

WASHINGTON, 29th July, 2025 (WAM) -- A significant breakthrough by Pennsylvania State University researchers, led by Victor Pasko, has provided the first quantitative explanation for precisely how ...

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 ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process that ...

A strange “red lightning” phenomenon photographed from near a lake site in the southern Tibetan plateau in 2022 was driven by thunderstorms over the Himalayan region, scientists discover in a new ...

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A stunning video of spider-web lightning striking a volcano in Guatemala in what almost appears to be a spectacular firework display has gone viral online. The impressive display of lightning struck ...