Missourians often associate lightning with thunderstorms or the occasional snowstorm, but other parts of the world also experience lightning in some different scenarios. Residents along coastlines may ...

The very moment two electrical currents slam together to form a lightning bolt has been captured, revealing for the first time the role this process plays in generating powerful gamma rays right here ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process that ...