"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

Lightning can also sometimes flash from the ground to the cloud when electrical charges build up at the surface and connect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, ...

On Jupiter, a storm doesn't just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet's atmosphere is a perpetual engine of turbulence, and somewhere inside those churning cloud bands, lightning is cracking ...

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Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the ...

A new high-voltage generator concept is promising pulse energies on the scale of hundreds of lightning strikes, a claim that instantly vaults it into the realm of the most powerful electrical devices ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...