Mother Nature briefly spoiled Indiana football's homecoming. Due to lightning in the Bloomington area, Saturday's Big Ten showdown between No. 3 Indiana and Michigan State went into a 30-minute ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

This January, lightning struck and killed a 103-year-old grandmother while she was simply handling utensils in her kitchen hut in eastern Zimbabwe. Her tragic death is a grim, personal reminder of a ...

Dipteryx oleifera trees not only survive lightning strikes, they grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

Florida, the lightning capital of the United States, leads the nation in both the density of lightning strikes and deaths by lightning.