Lightning strikes boost mushroom growth. Studies confirm electric pulses can double yields, backing ancient beliefs in ...

Researchers have discovered a tree that miraculously uses lightning to kill parasites and other trees around it.

As storm season ramps up, so does lightning danger -- and with it, decades of misinformation. Let's set the record straight ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Lightning is most common during the ...

Scientists and engineers at the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) ...

Over 100 red sprites were captured above the Himalayas in 2022. A study linked them to strong lightning strikes in a large ...

Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, ...

An astronaut has captured jaw-dropping lightning from space. NASA’s Nichole Ayers has wowed space fans with her snaps of the ...

A Tokyo-based tech giant claims to have created the first drone in the world to induce and guide lightning strikes.

Corroborative of these conclusions of Dr. Eichardson, we have now before ug an account of a remarkable case of burning by lightning, in the American Journal of Medical Science. The victim of the ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study ...