Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...

That "something else" appears to originate from space.

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...

When marine scientist Mustafa Asfur made a tiny storm in a box, he stumbled on a possible solution to a long-standing mystery: why bolts of lightning are brighter over the ocean than they are over ...