Lightning at Huntington Beach, Ohio In April 2009, Photo of the Day featured nature photographs. While at Huntington Beach in Bay Village, Ohio, I saw a storm approaching fast out of the north.

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning ... scenario for the constant production of life’s building blocks. “Microdischarges between obviously charged ...

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...