Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a ...

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 ...