This study uncovers terrestrial gamma-ray flashes produced by lightning, offering new insights into Earth's powerful ...

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a ...

Researchers have discovered a tree that miraculously uses lightning to kill parasites and other trees around it.

Each year, lightning claims hundreds of millions of trees worldwide, leaving behind scorched trunks and shattered branches. Yet, in an intriguing twist of nature, some tropical trees have turned ...

AT dawn on the morning of the last day in 1924 there occurred in the neighbourhood of Aberystwyth, in Cardiganshire, a thunderstorm of short duration but of unusual violence, and people were ...