Lightning has fascinated its observers since the beginning of human history. Those who painted the Lascaux cave walls in France approximately 20,000 years ago are believed to have represented it in ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

Thunderstorms moving across Los Angeles County triggered an evacuation warning for Santa Monica Beach yesterday. Beaches were also closed in Malibu as the storm moved north. The city of Santa Monica ...

focuses on research efforts that attempt to explain how lightning propagates, a phenomenon researchers are still trying to understand. shows different techniques used to study and measure lightning, ...

Lightning strikes over the weekend triggered more than 100 new wildfires in British Columbia, raising the total above 300 and leading authorities to order on Monday a ban on campfires for most of the ...

Booming thunderstorms, lightning strikes, bursts of heavy rain and even pea-sized hail hit parts of Southern California on Tuesday afternoon, prompting flash flood warnings around the region and ...