A company is creating its own lightning bolts to test equipment efficiency as strikes become more common due to climate ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

The lightning injuries occur just as the 25th annual National Lightning Safety Awareness Week kicks off on June 22.

It is estimated that Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second. • The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in ...

“While lightning fatalities have decreased over the past 30 years, lightning continues to be one of the top storm-related ...