Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, ...

Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

Lightning has captivated scientists for centuries, but despite extensive research, the precise atmospheric conditions that trigger a lightning strike within thunderclouds have remained a profound ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in IEEE Access hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated new ...

A rare and extraordinary event has been captured by researchers in Japan, revealing that lightning on Earth can produce gamma-ray bursts—high-energy emissions typically observed from cosmic phenomena ...

Triggered by lightning in thunderstorms, whistler waves are radio waves that are channelled thousands of kilometres around the world via ducts in the magnetosphere. As Ian Randall reports, these ...

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 ...

An electric weather phenomenon just broke a world record. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on July 31 that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.

Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is ...