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 ...

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light ... bolts that followed the path of the wire, which was ...

The array consists of two antenna clusters, located 7 miles (11.5 kilometers) apart at Los Alamos, which allowed the team to ...

The lightning flash travels very fast ... electrical charge that flows from a cloud down to the ground in a zig-zag path.

That "something else" appears to originate from space.