I had been noticing a whole series of lightning rods mounted on roof peaks at a nearby shopping mall. They all looked like this: Figure 1 Lightning rod mounted on roof peak. I wondered what purpose ...

If you have ever seen a mysterious ball of lightning chasing a cow or flying through your window during a thunderstorm, take comfort from the fact that you have witnessed a very rare phenomenon.

Lightning bolts that flash and clash high above erupting volcanoes can forge flying ash into glass, new research finds. The mechanism could explain the origins of odd microscopic glass beads found ...

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Inside towering clouds of volcanic ash, stunning lightning storms can create tiny crystal balls, a new study reports. Researchers recently discovered smooth glass spheres in ash from explosive ...