IN a paper which has recently attracted a considerable amount of attention, Kapitza 1 has proposed a standing electromagnetic wave description of ball lightning. His paper presents a good ...

In the wake of one of the flashes came the globular lightning, apparently floating slowly downwards. Two or three brilliant globular structures of the kind known as ball lightning appeared to ...

That's ball lightning, a mysterious and rare weather ... Their unusual shape has inspired countless photographs and sparked the imagination of sky-watchers worldwide. These clouds embody the ...