For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and hear the thunder, but the true beginning of a lightning bolt has remained ...

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 ...

How powerful is a lightning strike—really? ⚡ This video shows how to estimate the energy released in lightning using core physics ideas like voltage, current, time duration, and stored electrical ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...

Challenges for firefighters and future prevention Pyrocumulonimbus creates a higher chance of lightning strikes, and, depending on wind and environmental conditions, the clouds don't always coincide ...