A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works ...

Japanese researchers have successfully developed a drone system to catch lightning and make power in a world first in weather control technology. The project, led by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the lowland rainforests of Panama, one species of towering tropical tree may have ...