"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

(CNN) — Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

A lightning bolt that traveled an astonishing 515 miles across the skies from eastern Texas to Kansas City, Missouri, has set a new record for the longest recorded lightning strike. The bolt, which ...

A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A new record has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization for the world’s longest lightning bolt, breaking a previous record set by a bolt that flashed across ...

First introduced in 1996, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) format was developed to replace the array of proprietary cables and connectors used by devices to connect to personal computers of the era. In ...