Lightning, which can heat the atmosphere to five times the temperature of the surface of the sun, is the result of a powerful ...

Scientists already knew that lightning is an electrical discharge between thunderclouds and Earth's surface, but exactly how ...

The brief reprieve on the way includes daytime highs in the 70s and lowered dew points. Benjamin Franklin famously quipped: “Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.” Franklin was ahead of his time ...

Even before there was a United States, the US Postal Service was established and one of the most intriguing Founding Fathers ...

We still don't know why tornados happen, but we're getting closer to finding answers — just as the Trump administration ...

Postal clerks and carriers at the U.S. Post Office in downtown Santa Cruz celebrated the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Postal Service Friday morning with cake and a customary group photo outside ...

President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Israel to discuss the disintegrating humanitarian ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is staring down a confirmation backlog of more than 130 nominees — with President Donald ...

Each week, as I sit down to write my column, I’m visited by the ghosts of columns past — topics I once thought essential, ...

At the mouth of the Catatumbo River, an electrical storm unlike any other on Earth takes place for around half of the year.