A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the very first amino acids on Earth. The research revives and reimagines one of ...

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...

THIS is the shocking moment a lightning strike knocks five uni students to the ground, leaving two fighting for their lives.

Languages: English. Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second ...