Thunderstorms are known to generate gamma rays, the highest energy radiation on Earth. But pinning the burst to a specific bolt is new.

A pickup truck in front of her — driven by her husband, with her children aboard — took a powerful hit from a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt. He and the kids were fine, although the truck was ...

Superbolts are also unique because, unlike most lightning, they carry a positive charge, the Tulsa World reported. “Did ...

Like a high-tech hammer of Thor, a powerful laser can grab hold of a lightning bolt and reroute its path through the sky. In a mountaintop experiment, such a laser bent lightning toward a ...

The device that diverts the path of lightning bolts using a high-powered laser is seen in action at the top of Mount Santis in Switzerland.(Reuters: TRUMPF/Martin Stollberg/Handout ...