The study published last month in the science journal, Nature Physics, explains how ice can produce electricity, similar to ...

Engineers across many disciplines are aware of and concerned with lightning—and for good reasons. A lightning strike can cause significant structural damage, house and forest fires, and severe ...

As a late-summer monsoon spread across California in recent weeks, it delivered hundreds of thousands of lightning ...

Scott Butner, a retired PNNL scientist-turned-landscape photographer, has chased lightning storms much of his life.

After weeks of tireless work on the front lines of two major California wildfires, Strike Team 6827F is finally on its way ...

California has seen a record this summer, with tens of thousands of lightning strikes, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Even if only a small fraction of the total lightning current enters the wires, they may be too small to conduct the thousands of amperes involved and thus be melted or vaporized. The accompanying ...