When lightning strikes sand or rock, it can fuse into glassy tubes called fulgurites that can be multiple feet long.

A bolt of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet in that instant it becomes one of the hottest phenomena that ...

Early microbes may have relied on lightning to cook their dinner, say researchers. When lightning strikes sand or sediment, the path followed by the bolt can fuse into a glassy tube called a fulgurite ...

It is one of the more startling facts about everyday weather: the crooked flash that splits a summer sky briefly heats the ...

Rare forms of phosphorus – particularly palatable to some microbes – were likely to have been produced by lightning strikes on the early Earth EARLY microbes may have used lightning to cook their ...