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

In a rainforest teeming with competition, one tree has discovered how to turn catastrophe into advantage. In Panama’s dense ...

That "something else" appears to originate from space.

It’s summer, and he’s driving a big, black Denali pickup pockmarked by hail and pulling a 16-foot trailer outfitted with high ... lightning’s biggest mysteries. Why will a lightning bolt ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second, on average. Despite this, ...

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 ...

In addition to the buildup and trajectory of the lightning bolts, the researchers measured ... Cosmic ray showers are cascades of high-energy particles triggered in the atmosphere by cosmic ...

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 ...