Nov 23, 2017 by News Staff

Scientists from Japan and Singapore report in the November 23 issue of the journal Nature that they observed positron (antimatter counterpart of the electron)...

May 6, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute say they have visually captured the sound waves created by lightning. Acoustic signature of thunder. Image...

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

The Sun plays a significant role in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth, according to a new study that found that over a 5-year period the United...

May 17, 2014 by News Staff

How does lightning travel through the air? A new study led by Dr Chris Scott from the University of Reading, UK, suggests that high-energy particles accelerated...

Apr 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Australian scientists has proposed a new mathematical theory to explain the mysterious phenomenon known as ball lightning. Sightings of ball...

Nov 21, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Tel Aviv University predict lightning sprites in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered...