When thunder roars, go indoors… and for good reason! The worst place to be during a thunderstorm is outdoors because that’s where the lightning is. Each year, about 180 Canadians are injured by ...

Image curtesy of DC Comics. The Lightning Superman age of the late ’90s isn’t one of the Man of Steel’s most fondly remembered comic book tales, but read in its intended context, it a fun if ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Kilauea is in a unique phase of activity in Halema‘uma‘u, with 12 episodes of dual lava fountains since Dec. 23, 2024. Several past eruptions have been characterized by similar lava fountaining ...

Kilauea is in a unique phase of activity in Halema‘uma‘u, with 12 episodes of dual lava fountains since Dec. 23, 2024. Several past eruptions have been characterized by similar lava ...

Researchers at ISTA have discovered that the history of contact between materials determines how they exchange charge, solving a long-standing mystery about static electricity. Their findings reveal ...

“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Kīlauea is in a unique phase of activity in ...