New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

As massive bolts of lightning and energy crackled ... enclosed their “atmosphere” inside a glass sphere and jolted it with electricity, producing simple amino acids containing carbon and ...

SEATTLE — Widespread thunderstorms moved through western Washington Wednesday night, with lightning illuminating skies across the region. The National Weather Service said about 900 lightning ...

A new study reports that some tropical tree species are not only able to tolerate lightning strikes, but benefit from them. The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods. Getting zapped ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

The power outage on Viti Levu today was caused by lighting activity. Energy Fiji Limited clarified that lighting activity affected the 132,000-volt transmission line, disrupting electricity supply ...