Scientists have successfully modeled large lightning strikes that occur on a kilometer scale in a lab setting of only a few ...

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

The team of scientists didn't create a storm. Instead, they used mathematical calculations to simulate the science that creates a bolt of lightning.

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A Florida professor says the discovery of fossilized lightning led to the formation of a new material that's never before discovered until now. "We have never seen this ...