COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States ...

For residents at Asher Point Assisted Living in Sherman, that moment came early Thursday morning. “A great big crack of ...

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, ...

using it to induce and direct natural lightning strikes. The team is now working on how this flying lightning rod might capture and store lightning energy. There's a decent bit of energy in the ...

positive response from... Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects ...

After observing this phenomenon multiple times, Gora and his team of researchers got to work analyzing the properties of D. oleifera and what sort of impact, both positive and negative, lightning ...

You're not going to actually have to worry about a gremlin on the wing of the plane or anything like that, but something like a lightning strike is a very realistic and understandable concern.

These strikes can be dangerous with about 20 people dying each year from being struck, and hundreds more severely injured. So how do we get lightning? Lightning forms between the positive and ...

with the lighting strikes likely helping to extend the lifespan of the trees by decades or even centuries, the researchers said. Little is currently known about the positive effects of lightning ...