COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From tingling skin to hair standing on end, Mother Nature gives us a warning that lightning is ...

Let's talk about thunder and lightning and how thunder forms. We know how storms form... updrafts! Warm and moist air brings ...

For millennia, the concept of an omniscient God — a deity who knows every sparrow that falls, every thought that forms, and every star that burns across the vast expanse of the cosmos — has boggled ...

In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a professor of electrical engineering, and his team have shown that under ...

A hidden feature of water, long submerged, has finally been brought to the surface. New experiments have revealed supercooled water’s critical point — a specific pressure and temperature at which two ...

Our best mathematical model of the universe doesn’t match our observational reality, especially the existence of dark matter. Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have ...

As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest season for storms, springtime brings greater activity as temperatures rise ...

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last year, a team of engineers identified how lightning forms on cloud tops. The ...

Penn State researchers used detailed numerical simulations to show that lightning‑like radiation bursts could form inside small solid blocks, under conditions achievable in the lab.Dan Perry The ...

A 17-year-old whiz kid whose Irvine home was at the center of an FBI and hazmat squad probe last week said the search was all because of his science experiment. Federal authorities said they were ...

Following the Olympic break, it’s been a difficult restart for the Lightning. After beating Toronto, they’ve dropped three straight in regulation. Prior to the current skid, they went 22 games with ...

A 17-year-old whose science experiment led to a massive probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and hazardous materials response in his Irvine neighborhood broke his silence Tuesday, saying ...