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 ...

SILVER LAKE, MI -- A Lake Michigan business has captured lightning in a bottle − well almost. The Mac Wood’s Dune Ride team unearthed a fulgurite, or a piece of fossilized lightning, while prepping ...

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 ...

A potentially brand new mineral may have been hiding inside a chunk of "fossilized lightning" from Florida, scientists have revealed. "We have never seen this material occur naturally on Earth," ...

Lightning struck the Sahara desert about 15,000 years ago, and left a sign of its presence behind. The heat from the lightning reached a little over 1,800C and melted certain elements in the soil ...

A group of Florida neighbors trying to cash in on a lightning strike may have inadvertently found a new type of mineral group. The bolt struck a tree in their New Port Richey neighborhood, fried its ...