Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

A new model reveals how cosmic electrons and X-rays trigger lightning, solving a decades-old mystery about what starts a lightning strike.

Photoelectric feedback discharges initiate lightning with no constrains on densities or physical origin of seed runaway ...

A new study shows lightning begins with cosmic rays from space, uncovering how storms create the energy behind Earth’s most ...

The ultrafast placement of an electron in a polar liquid generates collective molecular vibrations in a spherical nano-volume ...

Penn State University scientists have demonstrated the complex series of events occurring inside thunderclouds that create ...

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. It uses magnetic and electric fields to speed up charged particles like protons or ions to very high speeds. This allows the particles to collide with ...

A full understanding of how lightning forms in the clouds has eluded scientists, but new research promises to solve this ...

When scientists at Rutgers combined these two into a layered structure called a heterostructure and blasted it with an ultra-high magnetic field, they unlocked a whole new level of quantum weirdness.