We all know that thunderstorms can unleash incredible bursts of electricity in the form of lightning, but you may not have known that thunderstorms also generate invisible bursts of gamma radiation ...

Paging all comic book creators. For the first time, scientists have linked mysterious dark lightning to its dazzling visible counterpart, a new study reports. Dark lightning, also called terrestrial ...

What is dark lightning? About 260 years after Ben Franklin flew a kite in a storm, scientists are researching a new kind of lightning, dark lightning, which occurs at the same altitudes used by ...

"Dark lightning" sounds like something out of a fantasy novel, but it's very real. These invisible bolts of energy are the most powerful type of lightning on Earth. Recent research on dark lightning ...

A lightning bolt is one of nature's more over-the-top phenomena, rarely failing to elicit at least a ping of awe no matter how many times a person has witnessed one. With his iconic kite-and-key ...

CHICAGO — More than electricity can illuminate a thundercloud. Brilliant bursts of gamma radiation, known as dark lightning or terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, also explode in lightning storms. And on ...

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief isn't my most anticipated movie this spring, but after the last full trailer, I am very interested in checking it out, in hopes of discovering a new ...

"Dark lightning" that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, scientists find. However, these outbursts do not seem to reach truly ...

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I HAVE been greatly interested by some photographs showing the rare phenomenon of dark lightning, which have recently been sent to me. So far as I know the only explanation that has ever been offered ...