A bolt of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet it superheats the narrow channel of air it travels through to ...

A single lightning bolt heats the narrow column of air around it to roughly 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the U.S.

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid fuel. Chemists from Northwestern University have developed a way to convert ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

These microsize lightning bolts are more than fancy flashes in a chemical reactor tube. Dayne Swearer and his team at ...