Lightning is a spectacular natural phenomenon that has fascinated humans for centuries. However, not all lightning is the ...

Lightning strikes are quite high energy events, and release plenty of radio frequency energy when they go off in the atmosphere. This makes them easy to detect, and the magnitude of the energy ...

The Phenomenon of Lightning Lightning is a powerful electrical discharge caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

Lightning is a powerful and seemingly mysterious force of nature, capable of releasing huge amounts of energy over relatively short times and striking almost at random. Lightning obeys the laws of ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

Detecting radiation is a fundamental necessity for national security, but doing so effectively and at a distance is a tall ...

This week, Eustis installed three lightning detection systems at area parks as a way to warn parkgoers of impending lightning ...

Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships ...

Lightning has fascinated and excited humans for as long as they have watched the skies. Although meteorologists understand the cloud conditions necessary to produce it, lightning cannot be forecasted.

Using data from a global lightning detection network, my colleagues and I have been studying how exhaust plumes from ships are associated with an increase in the frequency of lightning.