It’s a fundamental principle of physics that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same charge repel. But now, scientists at the University of Oxford have found that ...

If you're in an airplane and suddenly hear a loud bang or see a flash outside the window, your plane may have just been hit by lightning. When this happens, pilots are supposed to land as soon as ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — While our team of meteorologists track storms, our equipment tracks lightning data. KELOLAND sees a variety of weather during the summer, from general thunderstorms to ...

There's a big dfference between positively and negatively charged lightning. Positive lightning strikes are way more powerful than negative lightning strikes and can strike more than 20 miles away ...

Like-charged objects were found to clump together while opposites repelled because of the newly discovered "electrosolvation force." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...