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.

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

Before he changed the way we understand lightning on Earth, Joseph Dwyer studied the weather in more cosmic settings. Using the sensors on NASA’s Wind satellite, orbiting a million miles away, he ...

This article was first published on the website of Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering webpage (author: Amanda Morris): https://www.mccormick.northwestern ...

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 strikes are among nature’s most powerful phenomena, revealing the raw energy contained within our planet’s atmosphere. Beyond their immediate and often destructive impact, some strikes have ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter for 10 years. During that time, it has studied the huge storms on the planet, such as the Great Red Spot, which is larger than Earth. New data shows ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today, a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, ...