Lightning forms due to a difference in charges. Negative charges accumulates at the bottom of the storm cloud. Of course, opposites attract. A positive charge accumulates on the ground under the storm ...

Known as earthquake lights, these luminous phenomena have left geologists and physicists searching for answers. Typically ...

With the power of science, we now have data-driven proof that Lightning McQueen, while a capable racer, doesn’t quite match up to his sleekest rivals. NASCAR aerodynamicist Seth Dillard, whose day job ...

The salad on your plate may owe its existence to a thunderstorm. Many people are wary of lightning as a natural phenomenon. A hiker might worry about dark clouds on a day trip or a child might be ...

This ghost story pops up in different forms all over the world, but science has an explanation just in time for Halloween ...

Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?

As Halloween approaches, many parents brace for the sugar rush that seems to follow every piece of candy. With trick-or-treat bags overflowing, one question always comes up: Does sugar make kids hyper ...

Here’s how it works. Field experiments revealed that using rope and a small group of people, the people of Rapa Nui could have "walked" the moai statues. (Image credit: Carl Lipo) Easter Island's ...

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high definition against the Milky Way. Red sprites above the Milky Way, captured from ...

Ice comes in many phases (about twenty, to be exact), and scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) just discovered a new one called “Ice XXI.” To study this new ...

She told Live Science that the scientists' hypothesis is well-founded but added that we must also take into account that each of us has two time scales. Society divides time linearly into hours, days ...