Organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other partners, Lightning Safety Awareness Week is held the last full week of June each year. Lightning is one of the ...

The branching pattern left behind is known as a Lichtenberg figure, which forms when electricity moves through or across an ...

“What you’re seeing here is a ground strike that hit the 11th fairway of the Smith Tradition during a lightning storm,” the ...

When it came to Top Fuel records this weekend at the NHRA New England Nationals, the best advice was to keep an eraser handy. Brittany Force shredded her own New England Dragway speed record from ...

Lightning from a monsoon storm that swept across Tucson Thursday evening sparked a wildfire north of the city that quickly grew to more than 28,000 acres by midday Friday, authorities say. The ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning have made one of the first moves of the offseason. Tampa Bay has signed forward Yanni Gourde to a six-year contract worth an AAV of $2.33 million. The team announced the ...

As the summer months approach, lightning activity will soon ramp up. More than 70% of lightning-related deaths take place in June, July and August. Those months are also when people spend the most ...

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 ...

A typical lightning bolt can reach temperatures of up to 30,000 kelvins (over 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit). That's more than powerful enough to destroy common atmospheric gases and reassemble them ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

On average, a single lightning strike cleared out 9.2 neighboring trees as the current passed along via vines and adjoining branches. Additionally, the liana infestation on D. oleifera decreased ...

Scientists and engineers at the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) successfully triggered a lightning strike using a drone. To do this ...