“The crouch”—where you sit in a crouched squatting position with your hands over your head—is not the best course of action ...

Stay away from tall, isolated trees or other tall objects. If you are in a forest, stay near a lower stand of trees. Stay ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Julie Kresge knows something about fraktur, an art form whose name derives from Latin for broken script. The Monroe County resident was not necessarily surprised to stumble upon a fraktur during a ...

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning have acquired forward Lucas Mercuri from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for a sixth-round draft ...

Eleven thousand, six hundred. It might take a while, but that’s how many words someone would find if they were to grab a ...

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

Most living things don’t cope well with having millions of volts put through them, but one tropical tree species appears to benefit from being struck by lightning.

A WOMAN who was struck by lightning and lived to tell the tale has revealed how it made her eyes change colour. Carly ...