How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer—how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...

A group of scientists say they successfully steered bolts of lightning using laser technology during a storm in Switzerland, demonstrating a potential new method to protect infrastructure from ...

Thunderstorms give out powerful blasts of gamma rays and x-rays, shooting beams of particles—and even antimatter—into space. The atmosphere is a stranger place than we ever imagined Soon after the ...

When thinking about wildfires, we often think about its impact on our land, community and neighbors. But there is something else to consider: the atmosphere. PyroCbs, short for pyrocumulonimbus clouds ...

Aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm has helped a French–German collaboration to deliberately trigger electrical activity in thunderclouds. Researchers could soon have a better ...

A detector fitted on an airplane picked up a signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles When Joseph Dwyer’s aeroplane took a wrong turn into a thundercloud, the ...

The wildfires currently tearing through Australia aren’t just unprecedented—they’re catastrophic, as one fire researcher put it. Climate change and fierce heat waves have dried the landscape into ...

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer -- how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...