Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Scientists have successfully modeled large lightning strikes that occur on a kilometer scale in a lab setting of only a few centimeters ...

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

Lightning has captivated scientists for centuries, but despite extensive research, the precise atmospheric conditions that trigger a lightning strike within thunderclouds have remained a profound ...

A rare and extraordinary event has been captured by researchers in Japan, revealing that lightning on Earth can produce gamma-ray bursts—high-energy emissions typically observed from cosmic phenomena ...

Triggered by lightning in thunderstorms, whistler waves are radio waves that are channelled thousands of kilometres around the world via ducts in the magnetosphere. As Ian Randall reports, these ...

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is ...