For generations, people have passed around the comforting idea that lightning never strikes the same place twice. But nature doesn’t follow our sayings. In reality, lightning plays favorites, and those favorites are usually the tallest things around: skyscrapers,

Lightning strikes lit up the skies over parts of southeast Missouri on Tuesday, November 18, as severe thunderstorms rolled through the region.Footage posted by Albert Blackwell shows the progression of the storms as they walloped Cape Girardeau.

In a lab filled with bouncing green lasers and an anti-vibration table that hums a soft, squishy sound, the researchers used optical tweezers (focused laser beams) to trap and electrically charge single, micron-sized aerosol particles.

Hundreds of lightning strikes sparked across the Bay Area as a low pressure system passed through the region this week, bringing a spattering of rain and a cooldown that is set to end as temperatures heat up again. Over a 24-hour period from Wednesday to ...

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, dry thunderstorms — storms with little to no rain — set off thousands of lightning strikes across California’s Central Valley and Bay Area. Those storms sparked wildfires that had hundreds of people waking up to ...

Townsville has woken up with a bang thanks to an electrifying storm that caused brief power outages and lightning strikes across the city.

A system of unstable air that created an overnight lightning show with thousands of strikes from the Bay Area to the Central Valley steered course toward the Sierra Nevada by Tuesday afternoon, making any more electrical displays in the region a more ...

Passengers waited up to nine hours before they could disembark after the Ferris wheel came to an emergency stop.

Our planet is crackling with more electrical energy than ever before. Scientists worldwide are documenting an alarming trend that few people anticipated: and intense across the globe. This isn't just a quirky weather pattern - it's a direct consequence of our changing climate.