We all know lightning is powerful: It’s hot, it creates loud noise, and can certainly shock you... but there’s one aspect sought after by researchers and collectors alike, when that bolt hits the ...

By examining the fulgurite in detail, the team pieced together how this material likely formed. Iron is known to accumulate around tree roots in wet areas like Florida, and the lightning strike caused ...

It turns out there's a strange parallel between meteorite strikes and lightning (besides terrifying things coming out of the sky): both phenomena can, under the right conditions, create glass. That's ...

Each Monday, explore the many amazing minerals, fossils and historical objects on display at the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum with curator Garrett Barmore. Welcome to the ...

I don’t understand why some scientific discoveries don’t get more coverage in the media. We recently found out that the largest deep-ocean eruption in history produced upward of 9,000 tonnes of ...