Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State scientists demonstrate that lightning-like electrical discharges can occur inside solid materials, not just in storm ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a lightning bolt inside a laser beam. Multicolored beams radiate from a bright center and there are several ...

“Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research finds. Here, a wave breaks on White Sand Beach on the Thai island of Koh ...

Georgia, from Rock Island, asks a multitude of lightning-related questions including whether Ben Franklin really did the kite-in-the-sky experiment. Yes, he did, and was darned lucky he wasn't ...

In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a professor of electrical engineering, and his team have shown that under ...