The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?

For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

A defibrillator delivers up to 1,000 volts. An electric chair, about 2,000. A lightning bolt: 100 million. But because the current races through the body in milliseconds, it often doesn't kill. What ...

A loud boom that was heard across parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio on Tuesday morning, shaking buildings in the Cleveland area, ...

No major meteor showers are active at this time.

Aurora chasers, keep your eyes on the skies later this week as an incoming coronal mass ejection could spark favorable conditions for widespread northern lights displays.

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...