Can you guess which of New Jersey's 564 municipalities experienced the highest density of lightning events last year?

Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and voluminous crowns act as natural lightning rods, attracting strikes that damage foes and boost their competitive advantage in ...

Thunderstorms are exceedingly common; a staggering 3 million lightning strikes occur on Earth every day, according to the U.K. Met Office. But even though lightning is ubiquitous, scientists still ...

The "lightning crouch" is a position previously thought to reduce the risk of lightning strikes but is no longer recommended by experts. The National Weather Service and the National Lightning ...

By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes. “At their most extreme, it kind of looks like a bomb went off,” said Evan Gora, a forest ecologist ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning picked up an impressive 8-0 win against the Utah Hockey Club on March 27. With this, they have won each of their last two games, outscoring their opponents 14-1.

The Tampa Bay Lightning picked up an impressive 8-0 win ... Point's 300th career goal was an amazing one, too. After Nikita Kucherov hit the post, Point batted the puck out of the air with his ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning picked up an impressive 8-0 win against the Utah Hockey Club on March 27. With this, they have won each of their last two games, outscoring their opponents 14-1. Lightning ...