PORTLAND, Ore. — Ball lightning has mystified electricity researchers since Benjamin Franklin first flew his kite in 1752. The very next year, Russian scientist Georg Richmann was killed by ball ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a massive storm swept through central Alberta in early July, a couple stood on their porch watching bolts of lightning play ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We're all familiar with lightning that goes from cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. The thin, step-like shaped bolt of electricity produces quite a bang as the air ...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th-century experiment in which he attached a metal key to a kite during a thunderstorm to see if the lightning would ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

I saw a 20-second security camera clip on Facebook of ball lightning. It came out of the sky, rolled, and “walked” around a parking lot as if alive, then disappeared. Scientists to this day do not ...