Tag: lightning

We only found this out by accident.

Lightning -- and not meteorites -- may have seeded life on Earth.

New records for largest and longest-lasting lightning bolts

Credit: Pixabay. Some thunderstorms are so intense that the vivid lightning and crashes of thunder may keep you up at ...

Thankfully, they almost always strike on water.

It's a wild theory -- but is it crazy enough to work?

Lightning bolts on Jupiter are both similar and completely different from those on Earth.

As if lightning wasn't insane enough.

A famous lake in Venezuela is where you'll find the most zaps per unit area.

Scientists have just observed the longest lightning bolt on record by a long shot.

Powerful enough to melt the ground where it lands.

What does lightning sound like? Thunder. Well, what does thunder look like then? It's no trick question. Like all acoustic ...

By the time you've finished reading this sentence, thousands of lightning bolts had already discharged enormous amounts of energy onto ...

Researchers from the  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a model that projects how ...

The tropical rainforests of Central and South America aren't threatened only by deforestation - they are also overrun by lianas, parasitic woody ...

In this amazing slow-motion video, the folks from ZT Research used a high resolution camera to capture a full lightning ...

While I was browsing around youtube, I came across this particular video which just blew my mind. It's pretty much ...