A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

The chance of getting struck by lightning once in a lifetime is about 1 in 1.2 million. The odds that lightning reaches the ground in the first place are even higher — one in four. It’s the lightning ...