Lightning is the most common significant weather hazard that the United States deals with. As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, here's what you need to know about the electrical phenomeon.

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the ...

We have another question to answer, Pat D. in Pittsburgh asks, "I have heard the saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice. How true is that, because I think it does?" Well Pat, you are ...

It was the terrible prospect of lightning one day striking the historic windmill that troubled Andrew Farrell. A bolt five times hotter than the surface of the sun instantly turning moisture in one of ...

Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Playwright Tom Stoppard, in Rosencrantz and ...