When bolts flash across the sky and ... Gora’s team tracked 93 trees that had been struck by lightning using a custom-built sensor network and high-resolution imaging. Of those, nine were ...

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 ...

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana and ...

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 ...