A crack of lightning, a burst of heat, and suddenly a glowing sphere hangs in the sky like a craft from another world. Scientists now say this is not fantasy or folklore, but hard physics, after a ...

Mitigating the damage caused by 200 lightning days a year by nowcasting with advanced observation network We are conducting lightning observations on various frequencies of electromagnetic waves, and ...

A research team at the University of Geneva, Switzerland announced that it succeeded in inducing naturally occurring lightning strikes using a 1 kHz high-power pulsed laser. This research project has ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...