The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

University Park, Pa. – The mechanism behind different types of lightning may now be understood, thanks to a combination of direct observation and computer modeling reported by a team of researchers ...

Tentacles of light flashed across the night sky over the weekend but what causes the spectacular crawler lightning? Jackson Browne, meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin has shed some ...