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 ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds remained a ...

A meteorite that crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) pursued an anti-US foreign policy, largely compelled by the anti-imperialist climate ...

The governor is not pleased with utility regulators approving a new process for the state’s largest electric utility Eversource that would allow automatic yearly rate increases.

A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a ...

The ultrafast placement of an electron in a polar liquid generates collective molecular vibrations in a spherical nano-volume ...