A new study has found an interesting and, perhaps, important property of ice. It appears to generate electricity when it is ...

An international group of researchers has discovered new electric properties in ice that emerge when force is applied to bend the material in a certain way.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about squid-inspired fabric, the growing height of Mount Everest, and new research into the mystery of how lightning forms.

What follows behind thunder? Of course, it's lightning. How does lightning occur, how do we keep ourselves safe and are there any benefits from lightning?

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

The study, published in Science Advances, reveals that sprayed water forms droplets with opposite electrical charges. When these droplets come near each other, they create electrical sparks ...

The changing sky dazzles with a natural light show of lightning bolts and billowing clouds dance in the sky for hours. C ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.