Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a common idiom to mean that unusual events don’t happen to the same person ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

Lightning Formation Lightning is a mesmerizing natural phenomenon that captures the awe of anyone who witnesses it. But what ...

New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

After the regulations went into effect, lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight, per newly published ...

Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of ...

In the U.S., there are typically 20-25 million cloud-to-ground lightning flashes each year. Knowing the dangers of lightning ...

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in ...

Scientists have proposed a number of hypotheses to explain the correlation between lightning and pollution, all of which revolve around the crux of electrifying a cloud: collisions between ...