SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This episode is about lightning. We will use a balloon and a CFL lightbulb to explore static electricity. Static electricity is the movement of electrons between two objects, just ...

TULSA, Okla. — In May’s Weather Experiment Wednesday segment at Discovery Lab, we demonstrated lightning in a contained way using a Van der Graaf Machine. This machine generates electricity through ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process that ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the very first amino acids on Earth. The research revives and reimagines one of ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the lowland rainforests of Panama, one species of towering tropical tree may have ...

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