As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest ...

With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense that Texas would be among the most lightning-heavy states in the U.S. Well, that's putting it lightly. Vaisala, a Finnish company that specializes in ...

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

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

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

Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Lightning is a phenomenon that has fascinated humanity since time immemorial, providing a stark example of the power and unpredictability of the natural world. Although the study of lightning can be ...

ATLANTA — Lightning: It's fast, it's ferocious, and it's a common reality of summertime here in the south. In north Georgia, there is a nearly daily pattern of pop-up storms throughout the warmest ...

Technician Cesar Gutierrez climbs a tower to detect and locate lightning strikes in the study area. After detection, drones and on-the-ground teams monitor the strike’s impacts. Getting zapped with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning strikes near the Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ...

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.