The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a massive storm cloud. But a new modeling study shows mini-lightning can be created and studied inside a small ...

When storms roll in, the biggest threat to your electronics is not the rain you can see but the sudden spikes of electricity you cannot. Lightning, grid failures and power restoration can all send ...

The team of scientists didn't create a storm. Instead, they used mathematical calculations to simulate the science that creates a bolt of lightning.