A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last year, a team of engineers identified how lightning forms on cloud tops. The ...