The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere. By Kenneth Chang It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists ...

A photojournalist captured a lightning strike near the Sanibel Causeway on August 16. The photographer used a long exposure to create a time-lapse effect of the storm. Challenges included shooting at ...

The salad on your plate may owe its existence to a thunderstorm. Many people are wary of lightning as a natural phenomenon. A hiker might worry about dark clouds on a day trip or a child might be ...

Living up to its name, University of Washington spin-off company ZAP Energy's Century system is developing fusion power technology by blasting plasma with super-lightning-like pulses 12 times per ...

The threat is most severe on summits and on long, high ridges, where no trees grow and there's a good chance a hiker is the tallest thing on the landscape—like a human lightning rod. Up there, the ...

First introduced in 1996, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) format was developed to replace the array of proprietary cables and connectors used by devices to connect to personal computers of the era. In ...

Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Playwright Tom Stoppard, in Rosencrantz and ...

Struck by lightning during a roaring thunderstorm 10 years ago, an ancient pine tree in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz is thriving. Known as the “miracle tree,” this giant conifer now draws devotees from ...

There has always been something special that separates Tampa from other cities for longtime NHL forward Pat Maroon. Maroon announced his retirement from professional hockey at the end of the 2024-25 ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — Monday’s thunderstorms across Southern California sent thousands of lightning bolts arcing through the skies, with hundreds of them making contact with the ground. The National Weather ...

A 515-mile-long lightning flash from Texas to Missouri in 2017 has been named the world’s longest electrical bolt thanks to U.S. satellite imagery displacing a past record-holder as climate change ...