The crater of Mount Ruang flamed with lava against a backdrop of lightning bolts overnight after erupting five times - Copyright AFP/File Kena Betancur The crater of ...

Scientists and engineers at the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) successfully triggered a lightning strike using a drone. To do this, the team ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

It's that time of year when things start greening up more, and it seems to brighten up by the day. I was home Monday as it was storming outside, and I thought, "Man, that's the first time I've seen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single lightning strike in New South Wales, Australia unleashed a stunning chain reaction, rupturing a gas line, bursting a ...