Ball lightning has mystified scientists and witnesses for centuries, appearing as glowing orbs during thunderstorms that seem to defy physics. While thousands of people report seeing these luminous ...

There is nothing on Earth quite like volcanic lightning. Witnessing chaotic towers of tumbling ash emerge from an explosive convulsion at the apex of a mountain is already jaw-dropping enough. The ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...

Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has successfully developed and tested the world’s first drone-based system capable of triggering and guiding lightning. Between December 2024 ...

Lightning never fails to put on a sublime show, even when it’s made on the scale of the teeny tiny inside of a lab. But watching rocket-triggered lightning is truly a dazzling sight to witness. It ...

Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, infrastructure, and the continued existence of squishy bags of mostly salty water ...

Lightning, creators of PyTorch Lightning, today announced a suite of new tools built to accelerate distributed training, reinforcement learning, and experimentation for PyTorch developers and ...