In the wake of one of the flashes came the globular lightning, apparently floating slowly downwards. Two or three brilliant globular structures of the kind known as ball lightning appeared to ...

Despite modern technology, some phenomena remain almost impossible to prove—like ball lightning. This video dives into the ...

Ball lightning is a rare and mysterious atmospheric phenomenon that has fascinated scientists and the public alike for centuries. It is often described as glowing, spherical objects that appear ...

This rare form of lightning may represent a stable configuration of a plasma of charged particles. If it does, it may help to solve the problem of confining a plasma within a thermonuclear reactor ...

Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomena that's been seen since the beginning of recorded history, but it's so rare most people put it in the category of folklore or pseudoscience. 'The Cosby Show ...

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Ball lightning is a rare occurrence that few people have seen with their own eyes. Thought for many years to be a myth, scientists now recognise it as a genuine phenomenon, but remain baffled about ...

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There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud and the ground. And even ball lightning. When lightning happens, it heats the air to around 10,000 °C. As the air heats so quickly it ...