New research suggests that Dipteryx oleifera trees, after being struck by lightning, are 14 times more likely to produce ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a common idiom to mean that unusual events don’t happen to the same person ...

Tesla has become a lightning rod for violent attacks and vandalism in the months since CEO Elon Musk joined the Trump ...

The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods. The research was led by Evan Gora, a forest ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Gora studies how lightning impacts ...

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx oleifera trees often benefit from lightning strikes that ...

The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods. Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study ...