You've probably seen lightning flash across the sky, but do you know why and how it happens? This simple science activity teaches how lightning forms and ...

A global team of researchers has turned its focus to an earlier detection of lightning strikes which cause devastating ...

but as thunder clouds they have the potential to spit out lightning and spark still more fires on the ground. These ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ clouds are towering formations formed by the updraft from ...

Last year the world recorded over 2.2 billion lightning strikes, a shocking study shows. One Texas city was deemed the lightning capital of the U.S.

Tharparkar, a region once celebrated for its vibrant hues and striking contrasts, now finds itself shrouded in a cloud of ...

The Irish lightning strike caused downtime for many Amazon and Microsoft customers using the two cloud colossuses cloud computing services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and ...

If the charge builds up enough, it flows as a massive electrical current to the ground or to another cloud. This is like a shock or a really big spark and is what we call lightning. There are lots ...

“Lightning strikes are increasing,” Kato said. “Nowadays, cumulonimbus clouds form over wide areas, and thunderstorms with heavy downpours can occur several times every few hours.

Dry lightning strikes have been blamed for causing a number of bushfires across Victoria. But what's the difference between ...

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning and Lightning Studios the AI development platform, today announced the ...

Unlike other providers that store customer data externally, Lightning can run DeepSeek-R1 entirely within private VPCs on AWS and Google Cloud, ensuring all data stays on-premises. AI Hub APIs can ...